RE: [Exim] Strange problem with user nobody

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Author: Clive McDowell
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To: 'exim-users'
Subject: RE: [Exim] Strange problem with user nobody
Nico,

Thanks - I swapped the localuser and send_to_gateway routers to cure
this. I assumed that the domain would be checked in localuser but I see
there is no such check there by default. If I added a domains =
+local_domains line to the localuser I suppose this would have fixed it
too. Anyway, swapping the routers is better as the amount of local
deliveries will be minimal.

Thanks again,

Clive


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nico Erfurth [mailto:masta@perlgolf.de]
> Sent: 07 November 2002 09:51
> To: Clive McDowell
> Cc: exim-users
> Subject: 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
>
>