exim4 : how to send email to local domain + address ?

[david]

On Sunday 29 June 2008 6:38:12 am Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008 12:20:22 Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello,
> > how to send email to a local mailbox ?
> >
> > My config in file email-addresses is :
> >
> > bruno: myemail at pt.lu
> > root: myemail at pt.lu
> >
> > which works fine to email to external email address
> > but not for local, ie. from bruno to root as I received
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <root at pc34ghz.org>
> >     (reason: 550 Host unknown)
> >
> > I suppose I should indicate pc34ghz.org as local domaon not to be send to
> > my ISP smtp server (which is the reason of errror as my local domain is
> > of course not known) but how ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Bye,
> > Bruno
>
> I forgot to indicate the syntax for test.
> As user bruno:
>
> mail -s "test message" root<ENTER>
> test<ENTER>
> ^D
> Cc:<ENTER>
>
> which I expected to receive in the local mailbox 'root' but not sent to my
> ISP smtp server which is then logically bounced back with 550 host unknow
> error becasue local domain is unknown.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Bruno

Sounds like your trying to send mail out through your ISP and back and the  
reason it's bouncing is because your ISP does not know where to send the 
mail. If this is the case, all you should need to do is set up a transport in 
kmail using sendmail and only use it to send local mail.

-- 
David M.