Re: exim setup

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: richard welty
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: exim setup
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, richard welty wrote:

> i'm installing exim on a Linux 2.0.29 box, and it's mostly working ok.
> for some reason local delivery is a bit messed up, and i'm not sure what
> my configuration mistake is. the message log for a message i tried to
> send to postmaster@??? from a different system on the
> local LAN looks like this:
>
> 1997-06-28 03:11:39 postmaster@???: lookuphost router
> deferred: remote host address is the local host
> *** Frozen ***


What that means is that Exim has done the routing for krusty-motorsports.com
and discovered that its IP address is that of the local host. In order
to prevent the message looping round and round for ever, it has given
up.

> what did i mess up?


Perhaps you forgot to put krusty-motorsports.com in local_domains?

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