On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:39:21AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > Here's my situation and what I want: > > 1. I have a machine with no domain of its own, in the sense that I > haven't registered a domain or anything like that. My ISP is > speakeasy.net. Outgoing email goes to a smarthost. Incoming email > is pulled in by fetchmail and handed off to exim4. > 2. Various users on this machine have email adresses registered with > the ISP of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] When one of my > local users sends an outgoing email, exim4 appends "@speakeasy.net" > to the local username. > > 3. Likewise, if you were to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > fetchmail on my machine should eventually grab it and pass it to exim4 here. > This apparently means that when I've configured exim4 using dpkg- > reconfigure, I need to tell exim4 that "speakeasy.net" should be added to > the list of domains for which this machine should consider itself the final > destination. If I don't do that, then when exim4 receives from fetchmail > an email for [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim4 immediately passes that > email back on to the ISP's smarthost (because we aren't a final destination > for "@speakeasy.net"), and around and around we go.
Local delivery should be enabled. The only ISP entry should be the smtp server at speakeasy.net -- probably smtp.speakeasy.net That is [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be able to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without being connected to your ISP. > 4. But if I do that -- if I tell exim4 that "speakeasy.net" should be > added to the list of domains for which this machine should consider itself > the final destination, then that means I'm unable to send email to other > Is there a simple solution to this? Or is it time for me to roll my > sleeves up and learn exim4 in more detail? If someone can clarify what > I'm doing wrong through dpkg-reconfigure, or point me at some helpful > documentation, I'd be very grateful. You *also* need to add any users that have accounts at your ISP to the /etc/email-addresses file. Could someone confirm that is the correct name as I no longer run exim. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it should just work. Please post back if that doesn't work. -- Chris. ====== " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
