Marc Haber via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (Do 06 Jun 2019 16:07:36 CEST):
> Hi,
>
> in Debian, local_domains gets seeded with "@:localhost" plus whatever
> the local administrator has entered to augment the list of
> local_domains.
Why "localhost"? This would accept messages via SMTP addressed to
USER@localhost. I'm not sure, if this is intended.
> Am I doing things wrong by adding the short host name to
> local_domains? Why does @ only expand to the FQDN and not to FQDN and
> the short host name? Why is there not q special expansion item
> expanding to the short host name?
Imagine your host ist named "dk". Where should user@dk go to? To Denmark
(.dk has an A record) or to your local host.
From my personal point of view, mail addressing should use FQDN always,
or no domain at all (destined for the *local* host, not *localhost*).
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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