1/10 seems really high for this, but you might consider looking outside of
your exim setup. For instance we had a problem w/ symlinked passwd/shadow
files on a linux machine - worked beautifully on a solaris machine, but
every once in a while a lookup would fail on the linux machines and the
system would say it couldn't find the user. I suppose this also could
have been an issue w/ nscd, but I stopped looking after replacing the
symlinks w/ real files stopped the problem...
--John
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Exim User wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've encountered an unpleasent bevahiour with my exim
> configuration that I unfortunately don't know how to
> get rid of.
>
> Most time, everything works fine. I fetch my mail with
> fetchmail that passes it to exim that again is
> supposed to pass it to procmail. But sometimes, about
> in 1 of 10 cases, exim after having gotten the mail
> from fetchmail prints the following error message:
>
> ** user@localhost: unknown local-part "user" in domain
> "localhost"
>
> (user being my username on the machine I do mail on)
> and then sends an error message to the sender (stating
> the same error reason as given above). I do not get
> the mail.
>
> This does not depend on the sender address. Neither
> the sender nor I do something special. It just happens
> :(
>
> Any idea what I did wrong in my configuration? I use
> Exim 3.36-3 (original Debian package) along with
> fetchmail-ssl 5.9.11-7 and procmail 3.22-4 (i built
> procmail with flock() as my mailbox resides in cfs but
> I assume that's not important here).
>
> My .fetchmailrc reads:
>
> poll pop.server.tld proto POP3 uidl timeout 60
> user 'remoteusername' is 'user' here ssl
>
> My .procmailrc reads:
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILDIR=$HOME/crypt/Mail
> DEFAULT=$HOME/crypt/Mail/inbox
> LOGFILE=$HOME/crypt/Mail/procmail.log
>
> :0:
> ${DEFAULT}
>
> and my exim.conf includes the following lines (I don't
> know which ones are important, I just selected some):
>
> qualify_domain = localhost
> # qualify_recipient =
> local_domains = localhost:willow
> local_domains_include_host = true
> local_domains_include_host_literals = true
> host_lookup = *
> host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1
> smtp_verify = false
> gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
> gecos_name = $1
> receiver_try_verify = true
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> mode_fail_narrower = false
> envelope_to_add = true
> return_path_add = true
> file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
>
> address_pipe:
> driver = pipe
> path = /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin
> return_output
>
> address_file:
> driver = appendfile
> envelope_to_add = true
> return_path_add = true
>
> address_directory:
> driver = appendfile
> no_from_hack
> prefix = ""
> suffix = ""
> # maildir_format
>
> address_reply:
> driver = autoreply
>
> # This transport is used for procmail
>
> procmail_pipe:
> driver = pipe
> command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
> return_path_add
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> # check_string = "From "
> # escape_string = ">From "
> suffix = ""
>
> real_local:
> prefix = real-
> driver = localuser
> transport = local_delivery
>
> system_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> file = /etc/aliases
> search_type = lsearch
>
> userforward:
> driver = forwardfile
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> reply_transport = address_reply
> no_verify
> check_ancestor
> check_local_user
> file = .forward
> modemask = 002
> filter
>
> # This director runs procmail for users who have a
> .procmailrc file
>
> procmail:
> driver = localuser
> transport = procmail_pipe
> require_files =
> ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
> no_verify
>
> # This director matches local user mailboxes.
>
> localuser:
> driver = localuser
> transport = local_delivery
>
>
>
> I think I should mention that I do *not* have a
> .forward file in my $HOME, and that /etc/exim.conf is
> a symbolic link to /crypt/root/exim.conf (again
> residing in cfs).
>
> I'd *really* appreciate it if someone could help me,
> I'm desperate :(
>
> If you need any more information, please let me know!
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Michael
>
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