Bug#305569: cannot get exim4-config to generate a config that uses /etc/email-addresses

[Wim De Smet]

Marc Haber wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:51:09PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote:
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>>Marc Haber wrote:
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>>>hostname --fqdn should return the fully qualified host name (FQDN),
>>>not the unqualified hostname. There is something wrong on your box.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hmm it's a local box on a local network. I guess I never needed a dns 
>>domainname. Maybe adding one in /etc/hosts would help? (mydomain.org or 
>>something then?)
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>Maybe. I am not too sure about that. If you own a domain, use
>something like local.yourdomain.com, or if not, use something like
>domain.example or domain.local. .example is reserved in an RFC, but
>chances are good that .local will not get into global use any time soon.
>
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>>  "kromagg@localhost" from env-from rewritten as "wdesmet@yucom.be" by rule 1
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>That one looks good.
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>>  SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<wdesmet@yucom.be> SIZE=1303
>>  SMTP>> RCPT TO:<kromagg@gmail.com>
>>  SMTP>> DATA
>>waiting for data on socket
>>read response data: size=78
>>  SMTP<< 250 OK
>>  SMTP<< 250 Accepted
>>  SMTP<< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
>>  SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
>>  SMTP<< 250 OK id=1DQ8ZK-0005pf-U3
>>  => kromagg@gmail.com F=<wdesmet@yucom.be> P=<wdesmet@yucom.be> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost S=283 H=mail.tiscali.be [62.235.13.171]:25 C="250 OK id=1DQ8ZK-0005pf-U3" QT=1s DT=1s
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>This one is a successful delivery.
>
>And you say that messages delivered from your mail user agent are
>still not getting through?
>

Yes these mails indead got through. I didn't check it, but I just 
noticed that they did. I use mutt, here's the command line it employs:
sendmail -oem -oi -- kromagg@gmail.com
(gleaned from exim logs)
So perhaps the way it is passing stuff over to exim is causing the breakage?

greets,
Wim