On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:59:39AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > Hi. I'm a new-ish Debian home user, and exim was the default > SMTP handler at installation time. I have a problem with exim > that I've put up with for quite some time; but enough is enough, > and I'm trying to solve it now, and hope someone can help. > > I don't use exim to listen on port 25; no incoming SMTP connections > are allowed. I use exim 1) as an MTA for outgoing external mail, > and 2) as a local MDA. > > Email sent to users on my host first goes to an IMAP server at my > ISP, speakeasy.net; I fetch it from them using fetchmail, which then > passes it off to exim for local delivery. Since the email grabbed by > fetchmail, and then passed to exim for local delivery, will come in > with addresses of the form <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, exim needs to > recognize that incoming mail with that domain is indeed local, and > should be put in <username>'s mailbox in /usr/mail, rather than being > forward via outgoing SMTP back to mail.speakeasy.net. This implies > that "speakeasy.net" should be set as a local domain in exim.conf. > > Also, outgoing email needs a domain tacked on. In particular, > outgoing external mail, to be passed to mail.speakeasy.net by SMTP, > needs "@speakeasy.net" to be tacked on to <username> in the "From:" > header. At present, I take care of this by having qualify-domain > -- the domain automatically tacked on to all unqualified addresses > -- set to "speakeasy.net". > > THE PROBLEM: outbound external email to an address at speakeasy.net > which is not on my local host -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- > fails. exim sees the "@speakeasy.net" and interprets the mail as being > local, because "speakeasy.net" is in the local domain list. It then > tries to deliver the mail to <some_external_user> on my local host, and > fails because there is no such user. > > The only solution I can think of is to use something other than exim as > the local MDA (e.g. procmail or another MDA/MTA like qmail or whatever). > If I did that, then exim would no longer need to think that speakeasy.net > is a local domain. But that seems like a Rube Goldberg solution to what > I would naively think is a very common user situation. > > What am I missing here? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
It seems you've got pretty much the same setup as me; in my /etc/exim/exim.conf I have: qualify_domain = nestie.pigeonloft local_domains = localhost:nestie.pigeonloft local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true # This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who # don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone. # It looks up the real address of all local users in a file [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ {$value}fail} frFs and in /etc/email-addresses: # This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package # # This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local # part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal. # # It should contain lines of the form: # #user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #otheruser: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pigeon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no need to get rid of exim - it works fine! Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]