"I don't really know or care who maintains the scripts for that, but when I
choose that option, it enables local mail!”
Well you should care - because that is exactly who this rant should be aimed at.
Thanks for the head-up though.
M
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Merlin Hartley
IT Systems Engineer
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Cambridge, CB2 0XY
United Kingdom
> On 2 Feb 2016, at 15:40, Jordan Gigov <coladict@???> wrote:
>
> For some time I have been trying to configure a 4.80 server on Debian to
> use a Smarhost to relay all messages and keep none of them.
>
> The server itself basically located at say, mydomain.com and hosts a
> website. The mail is hosted on a different machine at mail.mydomain.com.
> Because the server self-identifies as mydomain.com, it keeps trying to send
> to recepients@??? locally, even though using `dpkg-reconfigure
> exim4-config`, I explicitly selected the option "mail sent by smarthost; no
> local mail".
> I don't really know or care who maintains the scripts for that, but when I
> choose that option, it enables local mail! The exact thing that I tell it
> not to do!
> Eventually I edited the configuration manually to disable all other
> delivery drivers or make them match no addresses, and make that one match
> everything, but things like this are why everyone hates configuring mail
> servers.
>
> Just so you know, I am well aware from experience that Postfix is an even
> worse nightmare to set-up.
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