Hi Phillip,
I recently installed Exim as well. My /etc/exim.conf includes:
local_domains = mybox.mylocalnet:localhost
(replace mybox.mylocalnet with yourbox.yourlocalnet)
Hope that was of some help,
--David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 1:17 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Just installed Exim - how to I get local/system mail?
>
>
> Yesterday I decided to replace Sendmail with Exim. I used apt-get to
> download and install it, and soon got it up and working. The *only*
> thing which appears not to work is the mail I used to get from, for
> example, cron when a cron job in /etc/crontab executed overnight. When I
> used sendmail, I used to get a message telling me what had happened. Now
> I get nothing.
>
> In /etc/exim.conf I have set 'local_domains = localhost'. I have set
> gmx.net *not* to be a local domain, because it is not unique and many
> share it. My hostname is scgf. Should I set scgf.gmx.net (the fully
> qualified domain of my machine) as a local domain? That will be unique
> to me.
>
> Many thanks. Sorry if I have not given enough info. You can probably
> tell more from my headers than I can give!
>
>
> --
> Phillip Deackes
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Debian Linux (Potato)
>
