On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> IIUC Exim, and every other unix-based mailer, can work just fine for
> local-only purposes with unqualified user-ids as mailbox names. Maybe
> it doesn't work that way out of the box, but don't let that stop you! ;-)
Exim does not, and never has, supported unqualified local parts in
addresses, except insomuch as it allows them on certain incoming
interfaces, and qualifies them at the point of entry. But that is pretty
much "syntactic sugar" on the interface. Internally, all addresses must
be qualified. Therefore, even if using Exim for local-only purposes, a
qualify_domain has to be defined.
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