On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:52:35PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully setup my debian box to send email to my gmail > account, but it is not expanding aliases correctly, and it is sending > email to the wrong user@gmail.com. > > I would like to have any email sent to just "root" or my local login > account via cron, logwatch, etc, automatically forwarded to my gmail > account, but exim is forwarding my email to myself, and then also it > looks like to root@gmail.com, or hovland@gmail.com, which are my > unexpanded userid's on my debian box. > > Config files are as such: > > # /etc/aliases > mailer-daemon: postmaster > postmaster: root > nobody: root > hostmaster: root > usenet: root > news: root > webmaster: root > www: root > ftp: root > abuse: root > noc: root > security: root > root: stefhen.hovland@gmail.com > hovland: stefhen.hovland@gmail.com > > > > # This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package > # > # This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local > # part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal. > # > # It should contain lines of the form: > # > #user: someone@isp.com > #otheruser: someoneelse@anotherisp.com > > root: stefhen.hovland@gmail.com > hovland: stefhen.hovland@gmail.com > > > > # /etc/exim4/passwd.client > ### CONFDIR/passwd.client > # > # Format: > #targetmailserver.example:login:password > # > # default entry: > ### *:bar:foo > *:stefhen.hovland:password > > > Example transaction from me as hovland trying to email "root", on my local box: > > 2005-10-04 19:39:25 1EMxJd-0001tx-SK <= stefhen.hovland@gmail.com > U=hovland P=local S=429 id=20051005003925.GA7305@gmail.com > 2005-10-04 19:39:27 1EMxJd-0001tx-SK => root@gmail.com R=smarthost > T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=gmail-smtp.l.google.com [72.14.205.109] > X=TLS-1.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24 > 2005-10-04 19:39:27 1EMxJd-0001tx-SK Completed > > Shouldnt root get translated to -> stefhen.hovland@gmail.com? Yes, but... I guess that your /etc/mailname has 'gmail.com' in it? If so, then your MUA or exim4 probably wants to expand the recipient name 'root' to fullname root@gmail.com. I.e. it's not sent to 'root', but to somebody whose email address is root@gmail.com. What happens if you send mail to root@localhost? So, tell your MUA or exim4 not to add the domain name into the email address. If this happens with cron jobs as well, then it is probably exim4 who wants to 'correct' the address. In that case fix the mailname or tell exim4 not to use it. Just a thought... > I will receive my message on my gmail account which was directed to > root, but I also get an error response from gmail that it was trying > to forward my email also to the user: root@gmail.com > > > Example: > > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification > > Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: > > root@gmail.com > > Technical details of permanent failure: > PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.7.1 No such user i19si239371wxd > > ----- Original message ----- > > Received: by 10.64.204.6 with SMTP id b6mr108721qbg; > Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT) > Return-Path: <stefhen.hovland@gmail.com> > Received: from localhost.lan ( [68.58.2.94]) > by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e13sm119870qbe.2005.10.04.17.39.27; > Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT)l to root@gmail.com it > looks like also: > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Stefhen Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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