There is a way to make it go through your smarthost, but I forget what it is. I had the opposite problem. Messages being sent locally weren't being delivered until I logged on to my ISP.
All this to say that if you really want that behavior, it's available. I just can't tell you how. Bob On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:25:34PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Just got a basic install running and during the course of setting mail > with the base-config tool, I think I answered something wrong but not > sure what would have been right. Or where to hand edit it. > > I have a fair bit of experience with sendmail, but my first go around > with exim. > > The details of my setup are: > Single user machine > dsl connected to internet thru local isp (dslextreme.com) and telco > Using local isp for smart_host > But pop server is newsguy.com not my local ip. > > I think I got most of this set alright except when I send a mail to > myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim tells me it is delivering locally > and I have it back instantly. That is it never goes to newsguy, or > thru my smart_host. > > I probably told exim to do that, but not sure what to change or where. > My user is reader on this machine. But newsguy.com is a commercial > online news/mail nntp/smtp/pop server. > > With sendmail I've always masqueraded as newsguy.com and it all > worked. > > I think it is actually working now except sending mail to myself a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is just put directly into /var/spool/mail/reader > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
