[GLLUG] Aliases with Debian Exim4

[Chris Bell]

On Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:01:57 BST John Winters via GLLUG wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Can you show us your actual exim4 configuration file and the *full*
> destination address of a sample e-mail rejected as "Unrouteable"?
> 
> There's one gotcha which has had me a couple of times.  Before it even
> looks at /etc/aliases, exim4 wants to satisfy itself that it is
> delivering the mail item to the right system.
> 
> So if you have a piece of mail addressed to "chris at mysystem.co.uk" then
> you'll get that error if exim4 doesn't have "mysystem.co.uk" down in its
> list of systems for which it considers itself the final destination -
> even if that is its DNS address.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
Thanks for the reply,
My ISP is plusnet, and mail sent to my plusnet address is collected direct 
from plusnet. Mail to my domain registered through mythic-beasts.com is 
received as SMTP by my mail gateway in a shorewall DMZ and forwarded to a 
hubbed host mail server in my main network. It is the mail server that is 
reporting that names listed in /etc/aliases are unroutable. Both are running 
exim4-daemon-heavy and spamassassin, and I have been using a similar setup for 
many years.

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Chris Bell
Website http://chrisbell.org.uk