Thanks a lot. I ln'ed exim/sbin/exim to /usr/sbin/sendmail and it worked!
very much appreciated.
Abe Tomas
tomas@???
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Hazel [
mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: July 15, 2002 4:09 PM
To: Abe Tomas
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: RE: [Exim] Newbie : . forward filter not working
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Abe Tomas wrote:
> First time I tried debugging, exim was looking for file 'configure' in
> /usr/local/etc/exim. I then copied our config file into this folder, ran
> exim -d11 test@domain. It delivered the message ok. Are there any
debugging
> messages that i have to look for during these -d11 tests?
>
> I tried doing another normal send like '>mail test@domain'. The 'User
> unknown' error message still displays and mail is saved in dead.letter.
What is the output of 'ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail'? It should be a
symbolic link to exim. (On some systems /usr/lib/sendmail is used.)
This looks like it might not be correct on your system - so Exim isn't
being called by "mail" - it's calling something else (Sendmail?)
instead.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
