Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > 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' [...] > > Well, the message hasn't arrived at our mailserver :( [...] > > > > 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 > > > > [...] > > I think your problem is with the local_domains setting in exim.conf. > Make sure you have qualify_recipient set to your hostname (not netway.at) and > local_domains is commented out.
According to your suggestion my settings are now as follows: qualify_recipient = woof # ...which is localhost's name... local-domains = localhost:netway.at:localhost # localhost even twice? Well, I don't mind, if exim insists # on that... My problem remains. Two questions: - 'my hostname': Do you mean the name of my PC or the name of my providers smtp-server? - 'commenting out': Do you mean a) disable by taking out of the context through commenting? b) enable by taking out the comment mark You see, I have a special "talent" of understanding things quite contrary, like: west wind: Does it come from the west or does it go to the west? Thank you and kind regards... Andreas.