Greetings, all.
I'm having a little difficulty with exim configuration. Debian stable,
exim 3.35-1woody2.
This is a home system, set up to deliver all outgoing mail through a
smarthost. I ran eximconfig, selected the smarthost option, and entered
the relevant data to get my basic exim.conf file. Since then, I've made
the following changes:
*** exim.conf.orig Fri Apr 23 06:56:48 2004
--- exim.conf Fri Apr 23 07:08:00 2004
***************
*** 29,35 ****
# domain to unqualified sender addresses, specify the recipient domain here.
# If this option is not set, the qualify_domain value is used.
! # qualify_recipient =
# Specify your local domains as a colon-separated list here. If this option
# is not set (i.e. not mentioned in the configuration file), the
--- 29,35 ----
# domain to unqualified sender addresses, specify the recipient domain here.
# If this option is not set, the qualify_domain value is used.
! qualify_recipient = localhost
# Specify your local domains as a colon-separated list here. If this option
# is not set (i.e. not mentioned in the configuration file), the
***************
*** 40,46 ****
# are no local domains; not setting it at all causes the default value (the
# setting of qualify_recipient) to be used.
! local_domains = localhost:comcast.net
# Allow mail addressed to our hostname, or to our IP address.
--- 40,46 ----
# are no local domains; not setting it at all causes the default value (the
# setting of qualify_recipient) to be used.
! local_domains = localhost:home.rcc
# Allow mail addressed to our hostname, or to our IP address.
***************
*** 413,418 ****
--- 413,420 ----
# don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
# It looks up the real address of all local users in a file
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] h
+
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
There's another hunk enabling authenticated connections, required by my
smarthost, but I'm omitting that here to avoid broadcasting my passwords
to all and sundry. I don't think it's relevant to my question, in any
case.
I should point out that I have (deliberately) given my machine a bogus
hostname, nanny-ogg.home.rcc, to avoid collisions. And my user name on
my local machine is `cobbe'.
In general, all of this works correctly. Mail that I send from cobbe's
account is correctly routed through the smarthost to its destination,
and it is labeled as coming from the address [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which is the desired result. Additionally, mail that is sent to
root is handled according to the local alias file, *not* routed up to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who, I'm sure, really doesn't want my logcheck output).
There's just one minor fly in the ointment left: mail that is sent from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (as by logcheck, for instance) is rewritten to appear as
coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd really like to have exim configured
to leave sender addresses of [EMAIL PROTECTED] alone, but it's not clear to
me from the Exim manual how to disable the qualify_domain rewriting for
a single local address.
Could anyone point me in the right direction, please?
Thanks very much for any help,
Richard
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