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Author: Stephen Gran
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Question about proper config for mail server behind firewall
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:34:24AM -0600, prosolutions@??? said:
> My problem now is that I cannot get mail to work correctly on the
> firewall itself. When it sends what should be local mail to
> unqualified recipients (such as administrative notifications to root)
> it does a DNS lookup and freaks out with a message "R=lookuphost defer
> (-1): remote host address is the local host LOG: 0 MAIN Frozen"
>
> I am using Exim v.3 (Debian stable branch). Below are some relevant
> lines fromexim.conf:

[...]
>
>                       TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION
> local_delivery:

[...]
>
>                       ROUTERS CONFIGURATION

>
> lookuphost:

[...]

Replace lookuphost with this:
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* 192.168.0.2 byname"

To send all mail through the internal mail server.
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