Hi, I'm having trouble configuring exim4. My situation -- that is, what I want exim4 to do -- *can't* be that unusual; so I'm sure I'm missing something fairly obvious. But I've played around with exim4's configuration via "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" a zillion times and cannot get there. I've Googled and skimmed the exim4 FAQ without much success yet -- lots of stuff, but nothing that looks obviously like the solution here. Next up is digging into the exim4 specification in detail. I really don't want to that if I don't have to -- I mean, if that's what I have to do to solve this problem, I will; but I'm hoping that I'm just missing something with "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and this can be solved more easily than skipping sleep, since right now I'm effectively working 15 hours a day and sleeptime is pretty much the only free time I have anymore. Here's my situation and what I want: 1. I have a machine with no domain of its own, in the sense that I haven't registered a domain or anything like that. My ISP is speakeasy.net. Outgoing email goes to a smarthost. Incoming email is pulled in by fetchmail and handed off to exim4. 2. Various users on this machine have email adresses registered with the ISP of the form some_user_name@speakeasy.net. When one of my local users sends an outgoing email, exim4 appends "@speakeasy.net" to the local username. 3. Likewise, if you were to send email to one_of_my_users@speakeasy.net, fetchmail on my machine should eventually grab it and pass it to exim4 here. This apparently means that when I've configured exim4 using dpkg- reconfigure, I need to tell exim4 that "speakeasy.net" should be added to the list of domains for which this machine should consider itself the final destination. If I don't do that, then when exim4 receives from fetchmail an email for one_of_my_users@speakeasy.net, exim4 immediately passes that email back on to the ISP's smarthost (because we aren't a final destination for "@speakeasy.net"), and around and around we go. 4. But if I do that -- if I tell exim4 that "speakeasy.net" should be added to the list of domains for which this machine should consider itself the final destination, then that means I'm unable to send email to other users of this ISP that have nothing to do with my machine (since they all have addresses like some_nonlocal_user@speakeasy.net). Right now, if I send an email to some_nonlocal_user@speakeasy.net, exim4 notes that it's been told that *I'm* the end destination for email to the domain speakeasy.net, and cheerily reminds me that there's no one on this machine by that username. Is there a simple solution to this? Or is it time for me to roll my sleeves up and learn exim4 in more detail? If someone can clarify what I'm doing wrong through dpkg-reconfigure, or point me at some helpful documentation, I'd be very grateful. Thanks for , -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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