On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which 
> contains e.g.
> 
> testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> When I send now a mail to testmail, The To: field looks like
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> without any domain name, though dnsdomainname gives the right answer:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/photos$ dnsdomainname
> homelinux.org
> 
> Any clue, what could be wrong?
>

you habe to edit your /etc/email-addresses for outgoing mails. the
/etc/aliases is for incoming mails only. eg. "root: user" in the
/etc/aliases would forward incoming mail for root to user. you have to
put "yourusername: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" into the
/etc/email-addresses


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