[nflug] Setting up local MTA as relay questions ## GOT IT

[JJ Neff]

OK turns out I was beign wrapped around the DEBIAN way :-)

SO I noticed that the actual runtime file for exim is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated and so I grepped for local_domains - that is set to MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS
Which when grepped was set to @:localhost.  In the conf.conf file where you set the values to be setup at run time I added a dc_local_domains since that is what the MACRO looked like it was taking -- BUT NO changes were being reflected upon restarting exim.

Well DUH I finally read the MAN page and saw that the value it expected for 
 DEBCONFlocal_domainsDEBCONF
              is  internally  generated from the contents of dc_other_hostnames in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and
              localhost.

dc_other_hostnames  -- WELL THAT WAS SO DARN INTUITIVE I ALMOST SCREAMED!  Every other DEBCONF macro took a dc_macro_name EXcept this one!  OH BOY _ 

Anyway after 2 days of fiddling I have it working now.  Mail sent to jjneff, jjneff at jjn.com and jjneff at elrey.jjn.com all go to local and mail to internet goes to internet .

What that wore me out - sorry for so many posts but maybe somone can learn from this.

JJN

----- Original Message ----
From: JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com>
To: Niagara Frontier Linux Users Group <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:48:59 PM
Subject: [nflug] Setting up local MTA as relay questions I thiNK I got it.


I changed /etc/mailname to elrey.jjn.com 
then I changed dc_visiblename in the conf file ( I Remmed it out) according to teh exim.conf if  qualify_domain is not set, the primary_hostname value is used for# qualification.   Since there is no primary_hostname in conf according to docs the uname value is used (uname -n is jjn.elrey.com)

SO when any user types an unqualified name - mutt appends jjn.elrey.com to it, then the router sees that as a localdomain and delives to a local user using existing transports.  Somehow jjn.com was NOT being seen as a local domain.  Still nto sure what is wrong there....

JJN

PS my current localdomains is set  (dc_local_domains='@:@[]:localhost:jjn.com') I'll try it without....






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