Circa 2001-Sep-14 11:55:17 -0700 dixit Michael West:
: I am just setting up exim for the first time.
:
: exim did not recognize localhost as a local domain until I added
: localhost to local_domains in exim.conf. Now it works fine.
:
: My question is, is this wrong?
It's only wrong if your machine's hostname is 'localhost'. Exim uses
the 'uname()' system call to get the chain of values that leads to the
default local_domains list (primary_hostname -> qualify_domain ->
qualify_recipient -> local_domains).
Hence, if 'uname -n' returns 'localhost', you have a problem. If
'uname -m' returns anything but 'localhost', you must do one of two
things:
(a) Add 'localhost' to local_domains.
(b) Use the 'smtpaddress' (or 'smtpname') keyword in your fetchmail
config file to change the domain (or address) fetchmail uses to
deliver mail on your local machine.
: fetchmail release 5.5.0+IMAP-GSS+SSL
(You should upgrade to 5.9.0; prior releases have remotely exploitable
security holes).
--
jim knoble | jmknoble@??? |
http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/
(GnuPG fingerprint: 31C4:8AAC:F24E:A70C:4000::BBF4:289F:EAA8:1381:1491)
