On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:03 am, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:30:33AM -0800, ben wrote: > | i'm still getting this: > | > | Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) > > This is normal and expected. The Received: headers are there so that > you can track down problems with mail transfer. Each MTA that sees > the message adds itself to the top of the Received: list. What exim > is saying is that it saw the message, and the envelope sender was > "ben" on the "localhost" machine. That is, you (as a user) asked exim > (on your machine) to transfer the message for you. > > -D
thanks for the response, but that wasn't so much the issue as the fact that exim wasn't reading the hostname i had set in a rewrite rule. this was resolved by commenting out the local_domains option.