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Re: [LUG] Exim4: localhosts

 

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:03:30 +0100
Henry Bremridge wrote:

> Having problems with exim4, and I am getting a bit confused with the
> terminology
> 
> What I am trying to do is to get my system messages (eg cron-apt) sent
> to my local mail box ($HOME/Mail/), so that each morning I can see what
> has happened over the previous night.
> 
> At the moment all such emails are sent from my machine to my webhost and
> back to my machine (which is kind of a waste)
> 
> I have a suspicion that the reason is that I have not is that I have not
> included my machine in the "list of domains which this machine should
> consider itself the final destination"
> 
> My local hostname is newdebian
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction: do I just add "newdebian"
> to the local hosts? 
> 
> 
> 
> My update-exim4.conf.conf is as follows:
> 
> 
> # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> #
> # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
> # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
> 
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
> dc_other_hostnames=''
> dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
> dc_readhost='xobie.com'
> dc_relay_domains=''
> dc_minimaldns='false'
> dc_relay_nets=''
> dc_smarthost='secure-email-2.luxsci.com:6025'
> CFILEMODE='644'
> dc_use_split_config='false'
> dc_hide_mailname='false'
> dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
> 

Can you not set your email client to simply read from the mbox file /var/mail/$USER ?

Grant.
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