On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > 1) There's nothing in /var/mail (I've configured exim4 to use the > traditional /var/mail mbox spools). AFAIK it is empty until the first mail. Try something like echo "test mail" | mail -s test your_username > 2) Messages that should be delivered locally (eg, output from > debsecan) are being addressed to "user@empty", which exim4 is trying > to relay through my ISP's smarthost. Is 'empty' the name of your machine? Your exim probably doesn't think himself as the server for "empty" so he tries to relay the mail. I don't know how to set this in exim (I use postfix), but you should also check /etc/mailname and /etc/aliases. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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