I have a domain that is hosted at an ISP. All my mail goes to the ISP. I
use fetchmail to download my mail to my linux box to read it in Mutt. I
had to tweak a couple things in /etc/exim/exim.conf in order to get exim
to work nicely with Fetchmail. What would happen is I would receive my
mail through Fetchmail and Exim would deliver it right back. Checking
the FAQ and archives I found reference to a change that seemed to work.
I have the following lines in my exim.conf file:
qualify_domain = duckwing.ca
local_domains = localhost:duckwing.ca
duckwing.ca is the domain that my ISP is hosting for me. I could not get
fetchmail and exim to work nicely together without this change.
(actually only the local_domains seems to be relevant).
Anyway, the problem I've encountered with this setup is I can't send to
another user in the duckwing.ca domain. For example, I can't email my
wife who gets her mail on our Mac from my Linux box. I get an error back
from Exim saying "unknown local part USERID". I assume this is because
Exim thinks my linux box is the duckwing.ca mail server and there is no
user on my system for my wife.
I did some checking in the docs and didn't find anything that directly
fit my situation. There were a couple of allusions but nothing clear.
Can anyone help me with a better config to get this to work correctly?
advTHANKSance
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