Glad you got it mostly sorted.
Assuming you are still accepting mail for localhost, you could make an alias for alan@??? to alan@localhost.
Hope this is useful!
Merlin
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On 28 Oct 2014, at 15:49, alan@??? wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom!
>
> I am now able to use exim's smart host facility to sent mail
> through his.com(my mail relay server). So the problem I wrote
> about earlier today is solved.
>
> I write in praise of the dpkg-reconfigure program, which allows
> an exim beginner, and a person with minimal requirements, to
> configure his system, and to run experiments if it doesn't work
> well. Of course one must put in one's name and password into
> /etc/exim4/passwd.client as well.
>
> The two non-obvious steps for me were: setting my system mail
> to his.com . And not hiding the local user name.
>
> There is one minor problem: In the past I have sent E-mail
> to myself. And it is passed through 127.0.0.1, I believe,
> without going outside my box here.
>
> Now an E-mail sent to alan gets sent up to his.com. It
> gets brought back when I run fetchmail . . . but still!
> I'd like to have mail sent to alan sent on right to
> alan here, but if my machine name is now his.com of
> course it will go up to his.com. If anyone has suggestions
> about this, I'd appreciate hearing them.
>
> Alan
>
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