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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-03-04 Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr> wrote:
[...]
> 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?

Yes, it does. It _allows_ incoming mail but does not require it. And
the SMTP daemon will only listen on 127.0.0.1 by default, i.e. the
local loopback interface.
          hth, cu andreas
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