Re: [Exim] Strange problem with user nobody

Clive McDowell wrote:
> Folks,
>
> we are running Exim 4.05 on a Sparc 20/SuSe linux platform. It
> provides an SMTP service and forwards all messages to our mailhubs
> for onward delivery. There should be no local deliveries other than
> the odd system panic or error messages I suppose. I haven't made many
> changes to the configuration file other than to perform as above. The
> problem I have is that any message with nobody as the user is treated
> as local e.g.
>
> exim@smtp1:~> exim -bt nobody@??? router = localuser,
> transport = local_delivery
>
> I have checked that there is nothing odd in the aliases file. Exim
> runs under its own user/group and this doesn't conflict with the
> nobody user. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

What about root@????

Is the order of your routers correct?

Please do exim -d -bt nobody@??? to see what happens, if this
doesn't help you, send the log of this debugrun to the list.

ciao