[Pkg-exim4-users] forwarding emails to another address

prad
2011-06-11T06:28:09Z

the initial experiment with exim was generally good.

i set up virtual domains as per
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/140

so i have in /etc/exim4/vh/towardsfreedom.com

prad : pradtf at localhost
kyron : kyrontf at localhost
michael : pradtf at hotmail.com

prad at towardsfreedom.com and kyron at towardsfreedom.com get their emails
delivered nicely to:
/var/mail/pradtf
/var/mail/kyrontf

however, michael at towardsfreedom.com deliveries aren''t going to
pradtf at hotmail.com as in a redirect.

instead, i''m getting this sort of stuff in the /var/log/exim4/mainlog:

2011-06-11 06:18:53 1QVFML-0000Rq-SL == pradtf at hotmail.com <michael at
towardsfreedom.com> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed
out
2011-06-11 06:18:53 1QVFMT-0000Ru-FX == pradtf at hotmail.com <michael at
towardsfreedom.com> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not
reached for any host
2011-06-11 06:18:54 1QVFMU-0000Rv-AG == pradtf at hotmail.com <michael at
towardsfreedom.com> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not
reached for any host

and

2011-06-11 06:19:15 1QVG2Y-0000aV-VY mx4.hotmail.com [65.55.92.136] Connection
timed out
2011-06-11 06:19:36 1QVG2Y-0000aV-VY mx4.hotmail.com [65.55.37.88] Connection
timed out

so it seems that exim can''t "find" hotmail in order to
deliver there,
may be?
or is it not looking?
according to the tutorial i have
/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/350_exim4-config_vdom_aliases

vdom_aliases:
      driver = redirect
      allow_defer
      allow_fail
      domains = dsearch;/etc/exim4/virtual
      data =
${expand:${lookup{$local_part}lsearch*@{/etc/exim4/virtual/$domain}}}
      retry_use_local_part
      pipe_transport   = address_pipe
      file_transport   = address_file
      no_more

with the comment:
"Here we tell exim how to lookup the local recipients."
so perhaps we aren''t looking up the non-locals?

how is this to be resolved so that i can redirect email to other addresses?


--
in friendship,
prad