Hi, I was playing with my exim configuration last night, and I did manage to get it to do what I want it to do, but I'm not sure it's the best way (it doesn't feel like it's the Right Way). Here's what I'm trying to do: this config is running on my desktop machine, called gobo. My mailserver runs at doorstop.net . I tell gobo to allow me to specify that my from address is @doorstop.net or @virtual.doorstop.net, depending on the occasion, but don't like to leave it @gobo because gobo's not always on. The problem I encountered was that when mail was (for whatever reason) rejected by my smtp relay, my mail would bounce. For the purposes of satisfying my own reluctance to give in to the trawlers, let's say my user account is "spamtrap" both on gobo and at doorstop.net . So the initial message was going out from spamtrap@doorstop.net . I get a 553 error from my smtp relay, and a bounce is generated and attempted to be sent to spamtrap@doorstop.net . This requires sending it to the smtp relay again. Another 553 error. The message is frozen in exim's queue. Worse still, though I had freeze_tell_mailmaster set, this was happening silently, and I was unaware of it for a few days when I had dozens of frozen emails sitting in my queue. Unhappy me. (Side question: if anyone can see from what I've said so far why freeze_tell_mailmaster wasn't emailing postmaster on a bounce, please let me know. Mail for postmaster is delivered correctly, and I haven't changed the default value of errors_address). So to work around the problem, I've told exim to deliver for spamtrap@doorstop.net locally on gobo (while still delivering mail to anyonelse@doorstop.net at the real doorstop.net). Finally (trumpets blare) I get to the heart of the question. Here's how I did it: localdoorstopnet: local_parts = spamtrap domains = doorstop.net driver = domainlist route_list = "doorstop.net localhost byname" self = local (that's in my routers section, just before the smarthost relay router.) I searched for a long time to find a router that would simply perform a local delivery to $local_part, in particular I was intrigued by this line in the exim specification (section 3.4, drivers): A router is a driver that operates on an apparently remote address, that is an address whose domain does not match anything in the list given in local_domains. When a router succeeds it can route an address either to a local or to a remote transport, or it can change the domain, and pass the address on to subsequent routers. , thinking that there should be a more direct way to, as put above, "pass it to a local transport." Like I said, though, my setup as above is working correctly; I'm just looking for a smoother, mor elegant approach, if anyone can conjure one up. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/ -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire, 1906
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