On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:03:09AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:49:21PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:51:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to get mail to other people on our LAN > > > using exim. Those I send are booted back saying they don't exist on my > > > machine. Mail should go to a server, but it treats all with the same > > > domain > > > as being on my machine. Have gone through the manual but I guess I'm > > > blind. > > > Kenward, check out the /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz file, near line 11900 for > > some information on setting up a smarthost thingy. > > I don't think that will help if the problem is that exim thinks that it > handles all mail for his domain. Most MTAs implement a luser_relay > option which allows one to specify a host to throw unknown local users > to. In exim this appears to be a smartuser director, and is documented > in the manual.
Well, the line number that I pointed at tells how to make exim point at a smarthost. It looked like the smartuser director might be able to do it, but it looked more like whatever was near line 11900 would do it better. :) > Try adding after the localuser director in your exim.conf: > > startuser: > driver = domainlist > transport = remote_smtp > route_list = "* mail.relay.for.your.site bydns_a" > > (Completely untested and assuming a fairly standard Debian exim > configuration). The other option is to use a fake name or your hostname > internally and use rewriting to make sure any addresses which make it > off your system are valid. > > > (Anyone else think exim's docs might be a bit too big? :) > > The main problem is knowing what to look for rather than anything else - > it's not very well indexed and doesn't cater to people using different > terminology so well. Hehhe. In the exim docs, EVERY SINGLE THING is explained in wonderful detail, and yet .. even though I have read them through completely a few times, I still feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data they contain. It has to be one of the few programs well documented. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
