Hi all,
Ok, I worked it out. The prob was sendmail was still controlling
outbound mail on the new server, I needed to update my
/etc/mail/mailer.conf file with the following:
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/exim
hoststat /usr/local/sbin/exim
purgestat /usr/local/sbin/exim
thanks Andy.
Quoting Andy Smith <a.smith@???>:
> Hi,
>
> I have two exim servers, with the exim config copied from the old
> server to the new server. The only difference in the configure file
> is the SYSID.
> On the old server if I send email from the command line (ie pipe
> into mail) the domain name appended is something like
> andy@??? which is the host as it is defined in the exim
> config (mx0 as opposed to the actual hostname). On the new system
> when sending mail it appears as andy@??? (id like
> it to appear as andy@???, mx3.mydomain.com is the SYSID
> from my exim config).
>
> The prob is that the address wont verify when in format using the hostname,
> ie:
>
>
> exim -bv a.smith@???
> 2009-12-16 14:53:30 [1204] remote host address is the local host:
> hostname.mydomain.com (while routing <a.smith@???>)
>
> The other principal difference between my servers are, one is
> FreeBSD 7.0 and the other is FreeBSD 8.0.
> I appreciate this is probably more OS related than Exim related, but
> perhaps someone has an idea as to why the behaviour is different?
>
> thanks in advance, Andy.
>
