Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM
Thanks to all who helped me on this problem, it appears the problem was EXIM was thinking that the domain was local Thanks again Kent
Still Having .forward problems with EXIM
Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Im about to pull my hair out! any ideas on what might be wrong would be greatly appreciated! Kent
Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM
hi kent is your .forward file specified in your home directory of the outgoing mail server ?? otherwise the mail server you are pointing to will not see it.. have fun linuxing alvin Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Im about to pull my hair out! any ideas on what might be wrong would be greatly appreciated! Kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM
*- On 24 Aug, Kent Andersen wrote about Still Having .forward problems with EXIM Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Im about to pull my hair out! any ideas on what might be wrong would be greatly appreciated! Kent Disclaimer: I am not an exim expert by any stretch of the imagination. My default setup has the following director in exim.conf. Is yours missing or ill configured possibly? userforward: driver = forwardfile no_verify check_ancestor file = .forward modemask = 002 filter and my .forward has permissions of -rw-r--r--. HTH, -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM
Kent Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Do you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf? local_domains = scgf.gmx.net:localhost Once this has been set, the implication is that any *other* domains are remote. Local mail will be delivered according to what is in your ~/forward file, remote mail will be queued when off-line if you have queue_remote_domains = * in your exim.conf for version 3 of exim, or queue_only = true if you are using exim v2. If you do not have this latter line, then exim will attempt to send outgoing mail immediately. If you are not on-line it will get queued anyway, but it assumes an error. At the end of your exim.conf you should have: smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = * mailhost.dircon.co.uk bydns_a mailhost.dircon.co.uk will be replaced with your IP's smtp mailserver address. BTW, my ~/.forward file looks like this: # Exim filter == do not edit or remove this line! if error_message then finish endif logfile $home/eximfilter.log if $h_Delivered-To matches [EMAIL PROTECTED] then seen save $home/Mail/School elif $h_x-mailing-list matches ^debian-(.*)@lists\\.debian\\.org then seen save $home/Mail/Debian endif I have a good few more rules in .forward, but these will suffice for illustration purposes. Hope this helps. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
