On 2016-09-13, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I've attempted to setup exim4 on a second debian OS, using the > working configuration from the older one. > > Before getting too detailed I think I see something in output of my > debug technique that indicated somewhere my host is telling exim the > wrong host name. > > (dv is host with working config ) > > I use this technique; sending a mail like this: > mailx -v -s "TEST 160912_211756 dv" rea...@newsguy.com < ~/txtmsg.txt > > I run that command then watch the smtp output from the little > test script named `tmail'. > > On the working host the first bit of output: > > $ tmail rea...@newsguy.com > sending like this: > mailx -v -s "TEST 160912_211756 dv" rea...@newsguy.com < ~/txtmsg.txt > LOG: MAIN > <= harry@dv U=harry P=local S=546 > > [...] > > Now the second, non-working host: > > tmail rea...@newsguy.com > sending like this: (Non-working host is `d2') > mailx -v -s "TEST 160912_211617 d2" rea...@newsguy.com < ~/txtmsg.txt > > LOG: MAIN > <= ha...@d2local.lan U=harry P=local S=440 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Notice the above difference .. in the working host it shows > harry@dv (hostname is dv.local.lan) > In the non-working host: > ha...@d2local.lan (hostname is d2.local.lan) > > Somewhere in my setup exim4 is finding the hostname without the > separating dot in d2.local.lan and is using d2local.lan > > Which may be causing the failure: Following the smtp otuput: > > ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- > > delivering 1bjcKi-0001Ey-9B > R: nonlocal for rea...@newsguy.com > LOG: MAIN > ** rea...@newsguy.com R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported > LOG: MAIN > <= <> R=1bjcKi-0001Ey-9B U=Debian-exim P=local S=1650 > LOG: MAIN > Completed > delivering 1bjcKi-0001F0-Fy > R: nonlocal for ha...@d2local.lan > LOG: MAIN > ** ha...@d2local.lan R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported > LOG: MAIN > Frozen (delivery error message) > > ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- > > Or am I making too much of the missing dot and it really is that I've > missed an important setting that lets exim4 deliver to outside of lan? >
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' as root on the second host to repair the hostname. See ยง8.5.3. of the documentation[1] for details. You can also inspect the working settings on the first machine using 'debconf-show exim4-config'. 1: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s05.html.en -- Liam
