On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Devin Brown wrote:
> A message is sent to biff@???
>
> There is a local account on the system called biff, but that account is not used by domain1 and there is no biff entry in the alias file for domain1
>
> Domain1.com has the following entry:
> *: steve
> in the alias file so that all messages that are delivered with a local part that does not match any entry in the alias file will go to the user steve.
>
> However, because there is a local user called biff, the message addressed to biff@??? goes to user biff instead of user steve.
Have you tried running 'exim -bt biff@???' to see why?
> Again, the strange thing about this is that it didn't do that before I switched to maildir and if I switch back to spool it goes back to working correctly.
I suspect that's a red herring.
> and in the directors section....
>
> maildir_user:
> driver = localuser
> transport = maildir_delivery
>
> #localuser:
> # driver = localuser
> # transport = local_delivery
We need to see the *entire* directors section, to see how the aliasing
is set up. But using exim -bt should help you solve this.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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