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

[anthonyriga]

 I have had great luck setting up Sendmail its easier
to setup then Exchange. Exchange suks!  I have read
about Exim never tried to setup.  Thanks for the info!

--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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