Thanks to Jonathan and Greg, and others, it seems that the cause for
the problem was found.
See below.
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:33:22 +0000
From: Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?
Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:33:39 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: [email protected]
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:33:46PM +0200, Itay wrote:
I tried several times, including re-issuing 'exim4 -qff'.
It hangs and I have to kill it.
The output is appended below.
OK I wouldn't worry about the hanging from this output. I suspect it's
just the SMTP client and/or server keeping the connection open in case
a subsequent MAIL FROM was on the way. However
Finally -- I don't know if it is significant -- but I note in the
output below, for example 3 lines from the bottom, that the address
'[email protected]' appears.
That's definitely wrong. I wonder if your aliases file is to blame.
Quoting your first message
2. Put a line in /etc/aliases
'root: root,[email protected]'
Is this not a circular definition?
I think not. 'root' on the right-hand side is considered a local
address with domain stripped. I saw this example somewhere on the
net, I can look for the reference. Anyway it works!
(The purpose is to leave a copy of messages also in the local mailbox
of root.)
$ man 5 etc-aliases
/etc/aliases
is a table providing a mechanism to redirect mail for local
recipients. /etc/aliases is a text file which is roughly compatible
with Sendmail. The file should contain lins of the form
name: address, address, ...
The name is a local address without domain part.
[End quote]
Personally I would try to achieve what you are doing with a
/root/.procmailrc file containing
:0c
[email protected]
:0
/var/mail/root
Just to make sure I understand: procmail is not complementary to exim4
for my specific task, but a drop-in replacement; right?
Do you have an /etc/mailname?
This was it!
As Greg pointed out, too.
The file stored 'fastmail.fm'.
I changed it to 'machine.homenetwork' and voila!
Message was delivered: one copy to local root mail box, and one to my
public address.
Many-many thanks!
Itay
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