On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Roger Books wrote:
>
> > I remembered later that there *is* something that might help. Exim just
> > calls getpwnam() to look up a local user;
>
> This brings up a small problem I have encountered. According to the
> documentation I have on IMAP it is legal to send mail to a particular
> mailbox. For instance if I wanted this list to end up in an imap
> folder I could have subscribed as books.exim@???. My
> delivery agent (Cyrus) will do this, but exim refuses to hand the
> messages off to deliver. My assumption would be because
> getpwnam(books.exim) fails. Is there any way to work around this?
Yup, it's trivial. Use the suffix option on your localuser director. In
fact, the latest manual contains an example of this for Cyrus that I was
sent, in section 17.5.
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