Question about exim forwarding


Hi,

My problem is that email forwarded by exim from root to my private email
address still shows "To: root@localhost" in its address header, instead
of To: "my.name@xxxxxxxxx" in its To: header. Because of this, some of
my emails do not get delivered.

How can I configure exim4 to make it work like that?

I am successfully using gmail as an smtp smarthost, as per the
instructions found here: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
I want all emails to root forwarded to my email address, and this works
only partially at the moment.

My /etc/aliases contains the following entry:
root: arno.aaldijk@xxxxxxxxx

My /etc/mailname contains:
localhost



This test mail: echo "my test" | mail -s "test message"
arno.aaldijk@xxxxxxxxx

Results in the following message: (domain names changed)
<...>
Received: from localhost ( [62.78.229.194])
by mx.domain.com with ESMTP id
l22sm36093nfc.2006.02.27.06.46.12;
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:46:12 -0800 (PST)
Received: from root by localhost with local (Exim 4.50)
id 1FDjda-0000Qb-1Z
for arno.aaldijk@xxxxxxxxx; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:46:10 +0200
To: arno.aaldijk@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: test message
Message-Id: <E1FDjda-0000Qb-1Z@localhost>
<...>

If I send email like this:
echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" root

The message does in fact arrive at the destination, but looks like the
following (and triggers spam filters)
<...>
Received: from localhost ( [62.78.229.194])
by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id
d2sm3352990nfe.2006.02.27.06.49.30;
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:49:31 -0800 (PST)
Received: from root by localhost with local (Exim 4.50)
id 1FDjgn-0000Ql-4n
for root@localhost; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:49:29 +0200
To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: test message
Message-Id: <E1FDjgn-0000Ql-4n@localhost>
<...>

Thanks for any help.

Arno Aaldijk

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