Space Ship Traveller <space.ship.traveller@???> wrote:
[...]
> Because there is no domain supplied, the mysql query fails and exim
> decided to try and route the address to the smarthost.. This doesn't
> really seem correct - if the address is provided without a domain,
> should it default to localhost? yes? no?
No. ;-)
http://docs.exim.org/current/spec_html/ch14.html#id546759
> Is mail ever sent to an address like this from tools such as cron
> (typically/by default)?
[...]
yes.
I do not understand how you ended up with your error message though,
normally exim should qualify the address before startng routing.
cu andreas
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