Folks - sorry if this is a repeat - I couldn't find it elsewhere (in the archives) - but I admit I didn't search too far back manually (a search for ignore hosts or hosts entries produced nothing relevant).
On Debian Etch (and a 1/2). exim4 - 4.63-17. The system name in /etc/mailname only matches the first entry on any line of the /etc/hosts file. I'm not sure how the system call is done here - or if exim is scanning the hosts file itself, but mailname ONLY matches against the first entry of each line. For instance: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.1.1 myhost myhost.mydomain If I use /etc/mailname of 'localhost.localdomain' or 'myhost.mydomain' then mail will get forwarded (via my smarthost) to : [email protected] or [email protected]. This behavior is ignoring my /etc/aliases entries: root: [email protected] However, if I use localhost OR myhost - then mail is sent/forwarded to [email protected] as it should be. Is this a Debian issue? A 4.63 issue? A known issue? Erik -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
