Re: Using Exim4 to send Messages through GMail

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:41:42 +0000, josé Santos wrote:
> > It doesn't get delivered locally and remotely?  What does
> > /var/log/exim4/mainlog say about your mail?
> 
> The log shows that Exim does try passed em onto to gmail, but in turn, gmail is 
> unable to deliver them, witch is understandable, they are ment to be delivered 
> to root@localhost.

The first thing to check is if your hostname is included in the local
delivery list of exim4; see the ouput of

  grep dc_other_hostnames /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

dc_other_hostnames should be a comma-separated list of all possible
hostnames for local mail, e.g.

  dc_other_hostnames='localhost,debianbox'

if your hostname in /etc/hostname is "debianbox". You might have to add
more hostnames to this list; check your exim4 log for the exact
addresses of the failed local mail deliveries.

The easiest way to change the exim4 setting is to run

  dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

The relevant configuration option is "other destinations for which mail
is accepted".

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          Florian   |