FAQ 0308 doesn't seem to work (was: [Exim] How to get rid of…

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Marc Haber
Date:  
To: exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [Exim] How to get rid of bounces on a secondary MX?
Subject: FAQ 0308 doesn't seem to work (was: [Exim] How to get rid of bounces on a secondary MX?)
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:50:16 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>[Actually there is in Exim 3 - you make the router route to the local
>host; you set self=local, and then you set up a smartuser director to
>catch it. Very messy.]


This sounds like the task given in Q0308 in the FAQ. However, the
example given there does not work: exim complains "local@domain cannot
be resolved at this time: error in router: transport missing". When I
set a local transport (appendfile delivering to /dev/null), exim -bt
gives "router = generate_bounce, transport = dummy_delivery, host
localhost [unknown]", and when I set a remote transport (remote_smtp)
exim -bt gives "router = generate_bounce, transport = remote_smtp,
host localhost.example.com [127.0.0.1]". I never see debugging output
from any directors, so I suspect that the transfer to the local
directors doesn't work as the FAQ says.

Specification chapter 28.4, fourth list item, suggests that either the
"self=local" option or the route-list "* localhost byname" are not
properly recognized.

Greetings
Marc

-- 
-------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -----
Marc Haber          |   " Questions are the         | Mailadresse im Header
Karlsruhe, Germany  |     Beginning of Wisdom "     | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15
Nordisch by Nature  | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29