She who must be obeyed asked me to generate a list of family birthdays, so I 
whipped up a perl script to read a flat file at the beginning of each month 
and report via mail on who's up... However, it seems that my exim.conf is not 
up to snuff. When I enter proper addresses into my script (i.e. 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) delivery fails with a munged address of: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- It works if addresses in the perl script are 
left unqualified, pointing to local accounts -- jeff works [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
fails. Mail seems to work fine otherwise. 

Where might I have screwed up?

#!/usr/bin/perl

open(MAIL,"|exim -bm -f jeff -t");
print MAIL "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
print MAIL "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
print MAIL "CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
print MAIL "Subject: Birthdays\n";
print MAIL "X-Generated-By: bday\n";

print MAIL "Upcoming Birthdays\n";
print MAIL "==================\n";

open (BDAY,"/tmp/bday.tmp");

while (<BDAY>) {
 print MAIL $_;
}
close (bday);
close (MAIL);

exim log:

<= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=415
<= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=mail P=spam-scanned S=733 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=> jeff.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=spamcheck T=spamc_delivery
** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part "jeff.org" in domain "elkins.org"
<= <> R=19xnfe-0000IA-00 U=mail P=local S=1536
Error message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Completed


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