However, it seems to me that when a mail is sent to a local user, it is not a very sensible thing to do to forward it to the smart host as is, since it will surely fail. Shouldn't the default configuration do it differently?
It won't surely fail in the situation that the local host is in a company network and does not have local mailboxes.
OK, I understand the behaviour makes sense in that setup, and I suppose it's not an uncommon setup.
Still, I think the following behaviour is also a common one: outside mail sent by smarthost, local mail delivered in spool; no incomming mail. This is typical with a dialup machine where users have their mailboxes outside the system (on an IMAP server for instance). Does the "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail" give this behaviour?
Daniel
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