On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael West wrote:
> 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?
Not if you need it.
> The fact that localhost is not in local_domains in the default exim.conf
> or written by default by eximconfig makes me think I may be doing
> something wrong.
It isn't in local_domains because in the environment in which I work,
and for which I wrote Exim (namely, permanently online hosts) you don't
need localhost to be a local domain. All addresses in this environment
should normally be global.
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