Glad you got it mostly sorted. Assuming you are still accepting mail for localhost, you could make an alias for [email protected] to alan@localhost.
Hope this is useful! Merlin -- Merlin Hartley IT Systems Engineer MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY UK On 28 Oct 2014, at 15:49, [email protected] wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > I am now able to use exim's smart host facility to sent mail > through his.com(my mail relay server). So the problem I wrote > about earlier today is solved. > > I write in praise of the dpkg-reconfigure program, which allows > an exim beginner, and a person with minimal requirements, to > configure his system, and to run experiments if it doesn't work > well. Of course one must put in one's name and password into > /etc/exim4/passwd.client as well. > > The two non-obvious steps for me were: setting my system mail > to his.com . And not hiding the local user name. > > There is one minor problem: In the past I have sent E-mail > to myself. And it is passed through 127.0.0.1, I believe, > without going outside my box here. > > Now an E-mail sent to alan gets sent up to his.com. It > gets brought back when I run fetchmail . . . but still! > I'd like to have mail sent to alan sent on right to > alan here, but if my machine name is now his.com of > course it will go up to his.com. If anyone has suggestions > about this, I'd appreciate hearing them. > > Alan > > -- > Alan McConnell alan @ razor dot globaltap dot com > "If brute force doesn't work, you are not using enough." > > -- > ## List details at https://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/ -- ## List details at https://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/
