Re: Configuring Exim for mail delivery
On Sun 02 Oct 2016 at 21:41:50 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 12:52:44PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> >
> > I have the same setup and all customisations (apart from hubbed_hosts)
> > have been done via debconf. TBH, I cannot see why /etc/hosts should be
> > consulted because I thought there is first a check for an MX record and
> > then an attempt to resolve the host *using the DNS* if there was none.
> >
> > Your instructions are clear so I can continue to try more customising
> > via debconf.
> >
> > mo appears to have had no more success than I have. Don't know about
> > Mark.
> >
> > --
> > Brian
> >
>
> That's twice you've mentioned conf.d now, bear in mind in a
> defaults-accepting Debian installation of exim4, it's not used.
It shouldn't make any difference whether the split configuration is used
or not for what we are doing.
A defaults-accepting installation would use "local delivery only; not on
a network". Obviously this would not suit testing mail delivery to other
machines on the LAN. It was at this first page I made my mistake!
I chose "Internet site......" because that is the way I always send
mail. No wonder I got "Unrouteable address". Was it clear that I should
have used "mail sent by smarthost......" (Liam?)?. Mystery solved. I've
not tested extensively but I can get mail to go to a user on another
machine.
I'm not enamoured of this technique because it does not suit my mail
setup. So I will stick with the more versatile hubbed_hosts.
Thanks for all the clues.
--
Brian.
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