[Exim] Re: Unrouteable address because of aliases

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Author: Patrick Starrenburg
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: Unrouteable address because of aliases
Gabor Tamas <gtnet@???> writes:

> > anyway Exim is saying that the webmaster@domain"x" is not routable i.e.
> >it is
> > going through routers and looks to be choking on first one "dnslookup"
> >which


> i created an aliase in /etc/aliases , aliase name is webmaster , which
> directs to gtnet user.
>
> i send a mail from that server to the webmaster user (just to check if
> aliases is OK) (it was a local mail ; from a local user to a local user ;
> from gtnet@ to webmaster@ , so i could do it without net connection)


> # qualify_domain =
>
> # qualify_recipient =


Your qualify_domain and qualify_recipient are (from default) commented out. If
you send unqualified mail (don't know exactly what you type in the To:
address, webmaster@ or webmaster) Exim won't know that this is local deliver
address - unless you tell it. Exim is primarily designed as Internet mail
server and does expect, as a rule, addresses in full form user@domain.

For your Exim (actually mail you sent copied to me showed Exim 3.03) do

# /exim4installdir/bin/exim -bV

this will tell you what version Exim is. Then check where sendmail soft link
is pointing to:

# which sendmail
        and assuming you get say "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
# ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail
        will show you which Exim is being called.


I just followed all your headers.

PS