Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

[Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>]

Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:39 schrieb Sven Clasen - Hacki:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which
> > contains e.g.
> >
> > testmail: rdorsch@web.de
> >
> > When I send now a mail to testmail, The To: field looks like
> >
> > testmail@silverboxy
> >
> > without any domain name, though dnsdomainname gives the right answer:
> >
> > rd@silverboxy:/var/www/photos$ dnsdomainname
> > homelinux.org
> >
> > Any clue, what could be wrong?
>
> you habe to edit your /etc/email-addresses for outgoing mails. the
> /etc/aliases is for incoming mails only. eg. "root: user" in the
> /etc/aliases would forward incoming mail for root to user. you have to
> put "yourusername: mailaddressofyourusername@host.com" into the
> /etc/email-addresses

Actually it is an incoming mail, if I send a mail without any host 
specification. /etc/aliases is processed....(see other mail)

Thanks,
Rainer

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