Re: [gnu.org #248053] Re: [Savannah-help-public] Bug in package application

[Sylvain]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:18:54PM -0400, Justin Baugh via RT wrote:
> > [beuc - Tue Jul 26 18:11:23 2005]:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, this is because the mail is sent to unqualified
> > e-mail addresses (such as "monnier" or "eliz") in the 'To:' header,
> > and because mx10.gnu.org now parses the 'To:' header and makes checks.
> > 
> > Justin,
> > - is this check necessary?
> 
> Yes. It is part of the many checks you should do to make sure that what
> is on the other end is a sane MTA. There is really no good reason to be
> sending mail to unqualified addresses.
> 
> > - if yes, could you help me configure Exim3 to rewrite unqualified
> > e-mail in the 'To:' header?
> 
> It's actually simpler than that, no rewrite rules necessary. Savannah
> already rewrites emails sent from local callers (i.e. using exim -bs
> directly). This can be expanded to localhost and savannah's public IP
> using receiver_unqualified_hosts. I added this line to exim.conf and
> verified that unqualified recipients now work from localhost and
> Savannah's public IP using exim -bh....so I think this problem should
> not occur any longer.

I tested - it works :)

Didn't got the part where, for Exim, 'local' doesn't include the
loopback. Thanks for the explanation.

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Sylvain