Dear debian-users I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED] This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at. I edited just a little text using mutt, hit the key for 'send', the test message has been relaid in my outbox file, which is probably alright. But then I recognized quite a lot of modem activity, which went on for two or three minutes. Now I do have a really slow internet connection, but several minutes for a text of just two or three lines... It semed suspicious to me, so I turned it off. Well, the message hasn't arrived at our mailserver :( But what about the modem activity? This is really spooky....
Besides it seems, all that exim does in my case is deliver messages locally. /var/log/exim/mainlog includes the following: [...]unknown local-part friendsname in domain netway.at with netway.at being the 'visible mail name of my system' according to the following entry in my exim.conf: qualify_domain = netway.at Now I think that exim tried to deliver an error message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to my /etc/email-addresses: andy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Like before /var/log/exim/mainlog said: unknown local-part hetzmann in domain netway.at Besides, I created this file for the purpose of handling outgoing mail, but now it looks like I can't receive system messages any more which used to go to /var/spool/mail/andy. Is my /etc/email-addresses OK? But the big question is: How do I manage to make exim send remote mail correctly? Hoping for your kind support, Andreas.