On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Ian D Crorie wrote:
> Just before I make my first posting to the list (as an exim admin of
> about two weeks now) I'd like to thank those involved in preparing
> more 'bonehead friendly' documentation. The specs at exim.org
> are good but more simple 'how to ..' stuff would be really useful.
I'm going to start work on that Real Soon Now. Maybe even after lunch...
> However, when the lookuphost router is commented out these machines
> cannot seem to use the DNS to expand 'hostname' to 'hostname.cee.hw.ac.uk'
> and so (eventually) recognise it as local. And a number of things
> here (like lpd errors and an old MUA which I have to support) produce
> addresses of the form user@hostname
>
> If anyone has an alternative solution to this problem, that would be
> great. Thanks in advance.
Add a rewrite rule like this
^[^@]+@[^.]+$ $local_part@$domain.cee.hw.ac.uk
so that all domains in addresses that have only one component get fully
qualified the minute Exim sees them.
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