On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > Dear debian-users > > I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account > on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at. > I edited just a little text using mutt, hit the key for 'send', the test > message has been relaid in my outbox file, which is probably alright. > But then I recognized quite a lot of modem activity, which > went on for two or three minutes. Now I do have a really slow internet > connection, but several minutes for a text of just two or three lines... > It semed suspicious to me, so I turned it off. > Well, the message hasn't arrived at our mailserver :( But what about the > modem activity? This is really spooky.... > > Besides it seems, all that exim does in my case is deliver messages > locally. /var/log/exim/mainlog includes the following: > > [...]unknown local-part friendsname in domain netway.at > > with netway.at being the 'visible mail name of my system' according to > the following entry in my exim.conf: > > qualify_domain = netway.at > > Now I think that exim tried to deliver an error message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to my /etc/email-addresses: > > andy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Like before /var/log/exim/mainlog said: > > unknown local-part hetzmann in domain netway.at > > Besides, I created this file for the purpose of handling outgoing mail, > but now it looks like I can't receive system messages any more which > used to go to /var/spool/mail/andy. > Is my /etc/email-addresses OK?
I think your problem is with the local_domains setting in exim.conf. Make sure you have qualify_recipient set to your hostname (not netway.at) and local_domains is commented out.
