On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote > My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I > need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to > send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is > "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au". A quick "grep adam exim.conf" gave > me: > route_list = "* adam.ist.flinders.edu.au bydns_a" > so I changed this to: > route_list = "* mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au bydns_a" > and then did "/etc/init.d/exim restart". > > Surely this is all I need to do I thought. But when I sent off a test > message and looked at /var/log/exim/mainlog it had: > > 2000-06-13 08:56:03 131dal-0001s8-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] > U=mark P=local S=1016 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-06-13 > 08:56:06 131dal-0001s8-00 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=r > emote_smtp H=adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21] 2000-06-13 > 08:56:06 131dal-0001s8-00 Completed > > So it is still using adam.ist.flinders.edu.au!!!!!! What is wrong? I > thought perhaps this invocation of exim is via the inetd??? But if I > look at inetd.conf I see: >
It could be that mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au and adam.ist.flinders.edu.au are the same machine, and it's simply using the canonical name in your logs. This would be fairly normal if they are arranging a transition from one to the other: both would work until they decide to drop the old name. Try the following three things: $ host adam.ist.flinders.edu.au and $ host mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au to see if they are, in fact, the same machine, and $ /usr/sbin/exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] to confirm how exim thinks it should be routed. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
