Bug#376157: exim4-config: fails to deliver root mail

[richard]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.62-1
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.62 #1 built 02-May-2006 11:51:48
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
#dc_other_hostnames='localhost.localdomain,compuzoo.charter.net'
dc_other_hostnames='compuzoo.charter.net'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
#dc_readhost='charter.net'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.charter.net'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
#dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:charter.net

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.87       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.2      Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4/dc_noalias_regenerate: false
* exim4/dc_smarthost: smtp.charter.net
  exim4/dc_relay_domains:
* exim4/dc_relay_nets:
* exim4/mailname: charter.net
* exim4/dc_local_interfaces: 127.0.0.1
* exim4/dc_minimaldns: false
  exim4/exim3_upgrade: true
* exim4/dc_other_hostnames: compuzoo.charter.net
* exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
  exim4/no_config: true
* exim4/hide_mailname: false
* exim4/dc_postmaster: richard
  exim4/dc_readhost:
* exim4/use_split_config: false
  exim4/exim4-config-title:


The default configuration when using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config 
results in no mail being delivered to root in Etch.  Worked fine in 
Sarge.  My etc/aliases file is identical in Etch to that in Sarge.  I 
have Etch installed on two machines and am unable to get root mail.  If 
I send a mail message to root using 'mail root' as a command, the 
message gets sent to my ISP.  It then is returned with an error message 
because root at charter.net is not identifiable, but my email address, 
which exim4 inserted into the 'From' field is identifiable.  I assume, 
but am not sure that the root mail from apcupsd is also sent to my ISP 
where it dies since the 'From' field is not identifiable.  I can't find 
a difference between the Sarge and Etch exim4 config files to account 
for this.  Disabling the rewrite of addresses does not stop this 
problem, only removes my email address from the 'From' field so the ISP 
doesn't know where it came from and can't complain.

Richard