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

[Daniel Bonniot]

>>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.

OK, I understand the behaviour makes sense in that setup, and I suppose it's 
not an uncommon setup.

Still, I think the following behaviour is also a common one: outside mail sent 
by smarthost, local mail delivered in spool; no incomming mail. This is 
typical with a dialup machine where users have their mailboxes outside the 
system (on an IMAP server for instance). Does the "mail sent by smarthost; 
received via SMTP or fetchmail" give this behaviour?

Daniel