On Mon 28 Jul 2014 at 10:34:04 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 27 July 2014 23:45:44 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > wrote: > > > > /etc/mailname > > > > > > localhost.localdomain > > > > > > > > > > > > This is the first answer on the reconfig, probably should not be this? > > > > This is not ok. Exim uses what is in /etc/mailname to qualify an address > > without a domain name. For example, if the mail is sent to david then > > exim cannot let it go out like that so will add localhost.localdomain > > and send it david@localhost.localdomain. smtp.012.net.il will be unable > > to deliver it because localhost.localdomain in not in the DNS. The mail > > should be returned to you. > > Thought so. Why was that even offered? I had replaced it previously with the > proper domain so did so again.
It was offered because your system was set up tell exim what the mailname was when it asked. > Now, if I simply send to a user, the mail will be delivered. > If I simply send to "root," it gets correctly aliased over to > "system_notifications," but then gets returned! > > So original problem remains !?! 'exim -bt <address>' might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/28072014145715.2d781cca7...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk