Re: [exim] Is the $primary_hostname automatically local?

Tony Finch wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Daniel Watts wrote:
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>>Or is the primary_hostname always appended internally to the local_domains
>>list?
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> <>
> No it is not. The difference between local and remote is purely
> conventional.
> Tony.


Thanks tony - so does that mean I *MUST* append the primary_hostname to
the local_domains domainlist to receive mail to core accounts such as
postmaster, root, abuse etc? These all have entries in passwd and shadow
files and those are only checked against local_domains...

Thanks for helping with my confusion! =)