On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 nbecker@??? wrote:
> I have exim-1.90 installed. I just upgraded my fetchmail. Now it is
> forwarding mail to nbecker@localhost. Exim wouldn't delivery this
> mail, it says:
>
> 1998-12-01 08:04:53 0zkpU5-00016i-00 <= nbecker@??? H=localhost [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=969 id=E0zkpTH-00016f-00@???
> 1998-12-01 08:04:53 0zkpU5-00016i-00 remote host address for localhost.hns.com is the local host
>
> I had to add localhost:localhost.hns.com to local_domains.
Correct. Exim makes no assumptions about any domain names (unless you
don't specify local_domains, in which case it takes just the name of the
host).
> Seems that this should be in the example configure file.
I am not at all sure that that would be right. We certainly do not want
to accept mail to "xxx@localhost" and I suspect this is true of lots of
sites.
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