[ILUG] exim4 and open smart hosts

[Peter McEvoy]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:58:27PM +0000, conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
> The goal is to simply relay all mail for root to logs at discuskeeping.com
> I've configured debian 3.1 with exim4 as follows:

Where roots mail is sent is controlled by /etc/aliases, edit that to
have:

root: logs at discuskeeping.com

You dont need to restart exim for changes in the aliases file to take
effect, but I would imagine you'll have to run dpkg-reconfigure
exim4-config again, answering some of the questions more sensibly - eg:
I dont think you'll be able to relay through yahoos servers, unless you
have some prior arrangement, and even then I would imagine they'll need
some form of authentication. If indigo are your isp, then perhaps they
accept mail from anyone on their netblock.
If you get the config right, you can use exim -qff to force delivery of
messages on the queue, if you're still having problems, you can use exim
-d -M <message id> to see why a mail isnt being delivered.
You should probably also take a look in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/


-- 
Pete