On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:05:02PM +0000, Merlin Hartley wrote:
> Glad you got it mostly sorted.
Thanks! I admit to being a bit chuffed<g>. It is a PITA
to have to ssh into this globaltap account, and most
depressing not to be able to use your accustomed methods.
> Assuming you are still accepting mail for localhost, you could make an alias for alan@??? to alan@localhost.
>
Now this I'm not grasping. In an earlier life(Debian Squeeze)
when I was running P*stf*x, I could send mail to myself, and
it would be "delivered locally". But E-mail sent to
anyone else would go up to his.com to be delivered by them,
with the usual address rewriting.
Incidentally, my local machine here is alanmcc.localdomain .
Let me rephrase the question more generally. Suppose there were
three local users; alan, ben, and charles. Can exim be configured
so that if ben wants to send mail to charles he uses whatever his
MUA to enter 'charles' and the mail stays here; presumable charles
could sent messages to 'alan' and 'ben' and the mail would stay
here. But any other message, with a more complete address --
way to superman@???, would get sent off by exim to
krypton.org and to Superman's mbox(we know Superman doesn't use
Maildir, don't we?)
I bet there is a way of doing this with exim, and I bet you and
lots of others here know how.
Thanks for your reply and I look forward to your answer.
Alan
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Alan McConnell alan @ razor dot globaltap dot com
"If brute force doesn't work, you are not using enough."
