Tim> Hi Roland, on Fri, 06 Aug 2004 23:54:18 -0400 you wrote:
>> My mail gateway is also my mail hub and it is also my firewall.
>> Perhaps not the best arrangement, but that's how it is set up for now.
>> Internet <----> Hub/Gateway <----> Internal Net
Tim> [snip problem missing a bit of clear info]
Tim> Would I be right in deducing the following:
Tim> - "Hub/Gateway" does local deliveries *on that machine itself*? If so, how
Tim> are they to be done? "Usual" BSD mailboxes?
Yes, they are delivered to local mailboxes, but via procmail.
Tim> - "Hub/Gateway" should handle local domains *.home.intra?
Yes.
Tim> - "Hub/Gateway" is *not* passing on the mails via SMTP to some internal
Tim> server?
Correct.
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Tim> Also, you might like to try:
Tim> exim -d -bt roland@???
Tim> as that will show you the routing steps that Exim goes through to decide
Tim> what to do with a mail to that address.
Thanks! That was the ticket; t.home.intra was not being picked up by
the local_domains---I apparently have to add t.home.intra to
local_domains. I didn't realize that local_domains also included FQDN
to the host level; once i did that, the mail came right through.
roland
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