[exim] relaying / routing

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Author: Ken Jackson
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] relaying / routing
Exim v4 on Solaris v9.

I have a MX record on Server1 for "ourdomain.ac.uk" with a DNS alias of
mailserver.ourdomain.ac.uk and poprelay.ourdomain.ac.uk, and I also have
a generic PopServer with an DNS alias of pophost.ourdomain.ac.uk
I'm trying to get all incoming email addressed to
"xyz@???" to go to the poprelay server (which holds
the 'ourdomain' MX), and then routed/relayed to the pophost server (but
keeping the "To:" address unchanged) but any email passed to 'here' or
'there' WILL get the hostname stripped out before being routed/relayed.
(Server1 does all the virus-scanning/spam-filtering before passing on to
various other imap/pop hosts)


In Server1 exim configure,
I have:

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domainlist local_domains = ourdomain.ac.uk
domainlist relay_to_domains = ourdomain.ac.uk : here.ourdomain.ac.uk :
there.ourdomain.ac.uk : pophost.ourdomain.ac.uk



begin routers

send to here:
    driver = manualroute
     domains = here.ourdomain.ac.uk
      transport = remote_smtp
     route_list  =  *  here.ourdomain.ac.uk


send to there:
    driver = manualroute
     domains = there.ourdomain.ac.uk
      transport = remote_smtp
     route_list  =  *  there.ourdomain.ac.uk


send_to_pop:
   driver = manualroute
   domains = poprelay.ourdomain.ac.uk
    transport = remote_smtp
    route_list = * pophost.ourdomain.ac.uk



begin rewrite

*@poprelay.ourdomain.ac.uk       $1@???    q
*@*.ourdomain.ac.uk                     $1@???    frsF


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and for any email sent from outside the domain, I'm getting an error in
the exim_mainlog of :
"temporarily rejected RCPT <xyz@???>: remote host
is the local host"

I'd be grateful for any advice on how to resolve this. do I need a 2nd
MX record for "poprelay.ourdomain.ac.uk" ?
Thanks in advance,

P.S.

I've also tried a router config rule of:

poproute:
   driver = manualroute
   transport = remote_smtp
    route_list = poprelay.ourdomain.ac.uk   pophost.ourdomain.ac.uk
bydns
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Regards,

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Ken Jackson.
Unix & Email Systems Administrator,
ICT Systems and Services (North Campus).
London Metropolitan University,
166-220 Holloway Road,
London, N7 8DB.

Email: K.Jackson@???

Tel:  +44 (0)207-753-3163
       +44 (0)207-133-2504
Fax:  +44 (0)207-753-


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