Re: [LUG] Exim4: localhosts

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:24:21AM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> 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.

The problem is that there is no mail in the /var/mail/$USER. (I checked
that, ie I am doing something wrong, but what I do not know) 

Henry

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