"I don't really know or care who maintains the scripts for that, but when I choose that option, it enables local mail!”
Well you should care - because that is exactly who this rant should be aimed at. Thanks for the head-up though. M -- Merlin Hartley IT Systems Engineer MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Cambridge, CB2 0XY United Kingdom > On 2 Feb 2016, at 15:40, Jordan Gigov <[email protected]> wrote: > > For some time I have been trying to configure a 4.80 server on Debian to > use a Smarhost to relay all messages and keep none of them. > > The server itself basically located at say, mydomain.com and hosts a > website. The mail is hosted on a different machine at mail.mydomain.com. > Because the server self-identifies as mydomain.com, it keeps trying to send > to [email protected] locally, even though using `dpkg-reconfigure > exim4-config`, I explicitly selected the option "mail sent by smarthost; no > local mail". > I don't really know or care who maintains the scripts for that, but when I > choose that option, it enables local mail! The exact thing that I tell it > not to do! > Eventually I edited the configuration manually to disable all other > delivery drivers or make them match no addresses, and make that one match > everything, but things like this are why everyone hates configuring mail > servers. > > Just so you know, I am well aware from experience that Postfix is an even > worse nightmare to set-up. > -- > ## 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/
