These three settings are important in exim.conf: qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz qualify_recipient = localhost local_domains = localhost
Assuming your computer does not have a fully-qualified domain name (most dial-up users don't). If you do have a FQDN, use that instead of localhost. So, people who want to send mail to you will send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will use fetchmail to relay the mail from your POP account to the local machine (tell fetchmail that you want to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You will send mail to local users by addressing it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or just user, and the mail will be routed locally. You will send mail to non-local users by addressing it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the recipient will see [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the "From:" field. Does that sound like what you wanted? Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08 10:21 AM >>> Greetings... I've tried searching the debian-user list archive already, and found some messages which probably contain the answer I'm after, but it seems that the actual messages aren't available, so I can't read them... (It was working a week ago when I last tried, but not yesterday or today...) Anyway, this should be an easy problem to solve for somebody. I've played around with eximconfig a bit, but I can't find how to solve the problem. I'm using exim and fetchmail for my mail delivery. Exim is setup using option 2 in eximconfig (recommended for dialup systems). Everything is working fine, I can receive email and send it fine, except if I try and send email to people on my ISP. The problem is that outgoing emails have their addresses rewritten as @ihug.co.nz, and my mail system classes these emails as local, so it tries to deliver them on my machine and fails. I thought I'd fixed this by stopping ihug.co.nz being considered local, but then email generated by cronjobs and such were finding their way to my provider ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - since the outgoing mails were having their addresses rewritten). I think it should be a simple fix to solve this, but I don't know what it is... I've checked howtos but they only seem to cover other MTAs. :-/ Thanks in advance. -- Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
