On Feb 17, 2008 1:41 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote:
>
> > 1) There's nothing in /var/mail (I've configured exim4 to use the
> > traditional /var/mail mbox spools).
>
> AFAIK it is empty until the first mail. Try something like
>
> echo "test mail" | mail -s test your_username
Doesn't work. It's trying to send local mail out through my smarthost.
> > 2) Messages that should be delivered locally (eg, output from
> > debsecan) are being addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which exim4 is trying
> > to relay through my ISP's smarthost.
>
> Is 'empty' the name of your machine? Your exim probably doesn't think
> himself as the server for "empty" so he tries to relay the mail. I don't
> know how to set this in exim (I use postfix), but you should also check
> /etc/mailname and /etc/aliases.
/etc/mailname had been different. I've updated it to match my old
configuration ("localhost.localdomain"), but still no luck. At least
now things are labelled "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", rather than
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
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