* Devin Brown <dbrown@???> [20020105 06:02]: wrote:
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> Hi. I have setup my Exim server to use Maildir format by specifiying the
> appropriate transport and director in the conf file. It's working well exept
> for one thing. I host virtual domains on this server and each domain has
> it's own alias file. Here's my problem. Before, when I was using the old
> spoolfile (local_deliver) transport, if a message was sent to an local user
> that existed on the system, but was not in the alias file for the domain it
> was sent to, the message would bounce, unless there was a *: entry in the alias
> file in which case it would go there. Now, with the maildir_delivery transport
> installed, the message will go to the local account. To clarify, here is a senario:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Has anyone encountered this before? Any thoughts on how to fix it?
You haven't shown us how you handle the virtual domains! I'd suspect the directors,
somehow.
Please run
exim -d9 -bt biff@???
...it will give some clues.
-Wash
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