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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. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html