Re: [Exim] confusing local_delivery problems

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Autor: Philip Hazel
Datum:  
To: Brian White
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] confusing local_delivery problems
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Brian White wrote:

> I have a transport:


<config snipped>


> Oddly enough, mail to something matched by the "localuser" directory does
> work but not through cyrus; it delivers it directly to /var/spool/mail/.
> I find this very confusing since both specify the same transport.


Applying the Sherlock Holmes principle (when all other possibilities
have been eliminated, the remaining one, however unlikely, must be true)
I suggest this means that the Exim you are using to run the test is not
using the configuration file you showed above.

> Here is the debug output from a test message created by
>
>    echo test | mail -s test real-bcwhite


What does "mail" actually call?

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