Re: root doesn't (and hasn't) rec'd mail in a long time

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov) [030513 18:26]:
> "Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com> writes:
> > My subject explains things best and I'd like to "reset" something so
> > that my system starts sending mail to root for different "jobs" that are
> > run. 
> > 
> > root doesn't have a .forward file, nor any procmail recipes. In
> > /etc/aliases, before today, it was the exim default config file. Today,
> > I added "root: hall".
> > 
> > Is there a debconf option that I may have turned off or on to stop
> > having messages sent to root ??
> 
> Start by finding out what happens to mail sent to root. Try watching
> exim with something like eximon as you send mail to "root".
> 
> In the past I've been bitten by the fact that I've set the mailer up
> to add my domain to addresses in which no domain is specified. This is
> fine for most email, but for root that may mean it gets sent to the
> root account on your domains mail handler. For example composing a
> message to "root" on my workstation and sending it, exim would
> actually send it to "root@sandia.gov". This promptly gets sent off to
> the root account on the MX handler for sandia.gov, which, thankfully,
> isn't my workstation, but that's obviously not correct behavior as I
> want it to stay on my workstation.

Uh oh... Just sent a mail to "root" and saw this in my exim log:

    2003-05-13 18:35:59 19FiNL-0001mX-00 <= root@mindspring.com U=root
    P=local S=459 id=20030513223559.GA6846@mindspring.com
    2003-05-13 18:36:00 19FiNL-0001mX-00 => root@mindspring.com
    R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=mail.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]
    2003-05-13 18:36:00 19FiNL-0001mX-00 Completed

I guess that answers it, huh ??

I think I know why too. If I send a message to my wife and don't
complete the address (or mutt doesn't read it fully and look up her
alias), it ends up going to "amy@mindspring.com". That's *not* her
e-mail address. Exim, I believe, is adding 'mindspring.com', isn't it ??

It's this setting, isn't it ?

    # Specify the domain you want to be added to all unqualified
    # addresses
    # here. Unqualified addresses are accepted only from local callers
    # by
    # default. See the receiver_unqualified_{hosts,nets} options if you
    # want
    # to permit unqualified addresses from remote sources. If this
    # option is
    # not set, the primary_hostname value is used for qualification.

    qualify_domain = mindspring.com

Is that necessary ?? If not, can I completely remove it or change it to
what ??

Thanks !
Hall


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