Re: [exim] Mail sent to root@FQDN doesn't get forwarded

On 2013-10-07 09:20, Evgeniy Berdnikov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 09:30:39AM +0100, Rich Stanton wrote:
> > Hi, I have a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system, running Exim 4.76-3ubuntu3.1.
> ...
> > Why is the forwarding email address ignored if mail is
> > sent to root@FQDN, but applied correctly if it's sent to
> > root@localhost?
>
> Probably your Exim is not configured to treat FQDN as local domain.
> Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" to add FQDN to the local domain list.
> --

Thanks for the reply - running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, the 'mail
name' setting was correctly set to the FQDN, however I noticed that it
wasn't listed anywhere in update-exim4.conf.conf. Adding the FQDN to
'dc_other_hostnames=''' in update-exim4.conf.conf fixed it all, thanks!