[Pkg-exim4-users] How does exim3 recognizes that some hosts belongs to its domain?

[Andreas Metzler]

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On 2005-06-02 Matej Cepl <cepl@surfbest.net> wrote:
> after lookup the question-answer pair in Exim3 FAQ Q0325 ("How can I arrange
> for mail on my local network to be delivered directly to the relevant
> hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail server? The local
> hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like normal Internet hosts."), I
> have made this router:
> 
> localmail:
>   driver = lookuphost
>   transport = remote_smtp
>   domains = vysocina
> 
> 'vysocina' is an internal domain on our tiny home network (one server and
> three, soon to be just two, workstations) and this is a relevant part
> of /etc/hosts:
[...]
>         192.168.0.1     mitmanek.vysocina mitmanek
>         192.168.0.2     chelcicky.vysocina chelcicky
>         192.168.0.3     blahoslav.vysocina blahoslav
>         192.168.0.4     komensky.vysocina komensky
>         192.168.0.5     kosatec.vysocina kosatec
>         192.168.0.6     daniela.vysocina daniela
[...]
 
> This is what 'dig kosatec' on the server gives:
> 
> mitmanek:/home/matej# dig kosatec
[...]
> kosatec.                0       IN      A       192.168.0.5
[...] 
 
> Why exim cannot understand that kosatec is in a domain vysocina (see
> attached /etc/exim/exim.conf)?
[...]

The domains-condition is more literal than you think it is,
ametzler@alioth.debian.org would not match "domains = debian.org". I
think you will need to use something like
  domains = vysocina : *.vysocina

            cu andreas
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