according to the manual, in the acl section:
accept hosts = :
This ACL statement accepts the recipient if the sending host matches the list.
But what does that strange list mean? It doesn't actually contain any host
names or IP addresses. The presence of the colon puts an empty item in the
list; Exim matches this only if the incoming message didn't come from a remote
host at all. The colon is important. Without it, the list itself is empty, and
can never match anything.
suggesting that the accept hosts with : should match local host.
on my system it didn't. i changed it to read
accept hosts = localhost : localhost.localdomain
and things started working in the expected manner.
richard
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