Bug#301906: exim4: Mail messages sent to local addresses are lost

[Marc Haber]

retitle #301906 mailname is no longer a local domain
severity #301906 important
thanks

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:02:45AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> For several days, all messages sent to local addresses are lost.
> In /var/log/exim4/mainlog:
> 
> 2005-03-29 04:50:40 1DG6oS-0003Xy-KZ <= vincent@vinc17.org U=lefevre P=local S=711 id=20050329025040.GS19392@ay.vinc17.org
> 2005-03-29 04:50:40 1DG6oS-0003Xy-KZ ** lefevre@ay: Unrouteable address
> 
> "ay" is the mailname value, so that it should be the local route
> as before.

This is an intended change in the package. The value of /etc/mailname
is no longer a local domain. This has been done to allow satellite and
smarthost setups to function properly. See
http://wiki.debian.net/?EtcMailName.

This will be mentioned in NEWS.Debian in one of the next uploads,
leaving the bug (with adjusted severity) open for reference.

Workaround: add local hostname to dc_other_hostnames in
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

The criticality of the error could have been less if you had watched
your unstable system more closely after the update.

Greetings
Marc

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