On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > contains e.g. > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I send now a mail to testmail, The To: field looks like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > without any domain name, though dnsdomainname gives the right answer: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/photos$ dnsdomainname > homelinux.org > > Any clue, what could be wrong?
You might want to be a bit more precise. What is it that you want to do? Forward every mail sent to testmail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not understand why you want to do such a thing, but in that case make sure you have a user testmail added to your system and edit his .forward file. For example, if you have: \testmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] then the mail is stored in testmail's inbox _and_ it is forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which actually _does_ make sense. If you want to send a mail _from_ testmail this is a whole different matter (already answered in a previous post). You said: > When I send now a mail to testmail, The To: field looks like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you compose a mail in a MUA, and does that MUA say: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or did you send the mail _and_ picked it up in testmail's inbox and _there_ it said To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a whole different matter, of course. The behaviour you describe (in both interpretations) is the default behaviour. Your mail is delivered locally, so no domainname is necessary (of course, you _could_ tell exim to _only_ use domainnames instead of hostnames, useful in a network). David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
