Bug#297841: exim4-config: Local rewrite stopped working after upgrade in sarge

[Marc Haber]

severity #297841 wishlist
tags #297841 wontfix
retitle #297841 "no local mail" now actually means "no local mail"
thanks

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:06:59PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> >Hello,
> >Yes, that is caused by
> >
> >    - Make exim work correctly if dc_readhost ("visible, rewritten domain 
> >    name
> >      for local users") ends up as part of local_domain, which happens if
> >      the same value is chosen for mailname and dc_readhost. This
> >      implemented by new router, hub_user_smarthost. Previously users were
> >      required to use something different (my.invalid.domain) for mailname.
> >
> >and I actually consider this to be a correct change, fixing a bug. 
> 
> However, it seems to me that when a mail is sent to a local user, it is not 
> a very sensible thing to do to forward it to the smart host as is, since it 
> will surely fail. Shouldn't the default configuration do it differently?

It won't surely fail in the situation that the local host is in a
company network and does not have local mailboxes.

> > If I select "no local mail" I actually don't want local delivery.
> 
> Do you want mails to local users to fail?

No, we want mails to local users to be delivered to the smarthost to
be delivered via the local site's mail system.

> This is important, because security checks, apt-changelogs, and surely 
> other things are sent to a local user (root) by default.

If you want local delivery, please choose a debconf method which
actually allows local delivery.

Greetings
Marc

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