Re: [Exim] Need more help for EXIM 4.30

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Need more help for EXIM 4.30
* Silly Billy <learnlinux2000@???> [20040330 07:53]: wrote:
> thankz Jvandal,
>
> as per ur mail i follow the steps and install and also
> configure EXIM 4.30 on my red hat 8.0 machine.
> But i got an error .. when ever i send a mail to my
> local user ...(i didn't try the WAN user yet)
> lets suppose i send a mail to test@??? i.e. is
> my local user.
>
> dexter@root~# mail -v test@???
>
> and when i run the log file .. it shows this error ..
>
> temporarily rejected RCPT <test@???>: failed to
> open SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE for linear search: No such
> file or directory
>
> Actually i am new in using EXIM 4.30 ....
> So could any one help me to sort out this problem???


OK. Look in exim.conf (or whatever yours is called) for the
string SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE and see what file it points to.
Should be /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases or something else.
Just make sure that the file it is pointing to _does_ really
exist and it's in the format of an aliases file.


        cheers
       - wash
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