Re: [exim] defer (-1): remote host address is the local host

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marten Lehmann
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] defer (-1): remote host address is the local host
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Marten Lehmann wrote:

> 2005-01-11 23:02:44 1CoU68-0006IK-2Q == lehmann@??? R=to_smarthost defer
> (-1): remote host address is the local host
> 2005-01-11 23:02:44 1CoU68-0006IK-2Q Frozen
>
> The reason for this constellation is, that we have one small exim instance on
> each server, that is simply sending everything to the smarthost.
> /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail are also provided by this package.
> And because it is installed on all servers since all servers shall have an
> identical configuration of the base system, it is also installed on the
> smarthost. I don't want to create a special package because this would cause
> trouble in the automated updates of the base configuration. How can I omit
> this problem?


Does hosts_treat_as_local help? (A hasty reply of the top of my head;
sorry, no time to consider in more detail.)

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