Re: [exim] unrouteable address from alias on internal host

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Author: Rob
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] unrouteable address from alias on internal host
Peter Bowyer wrote:
> Rob <rob@???> wrote:
>
>>We have two Exim4 boxes, one external that does virus and spam
>>scanning, it runs the config from http://www.jcdigita.com/eximconfig.
>>This machine handles routing mail to our internal server, and acts as
>>a smarthost for the internal server. The internal server deals with
>>all the virtual user accounts (courier imap).
>>
>>We have a few users with blackberrys that need to have mail forwarded
>>to their blackberry account and left in their box.
>>
>>I have the blackberry users in the /etc/aliases file as follows:
>>
>>user1: user1,userA@???
>>user2: user2,userB@???
>>
>>Everything works fine from inside. Mail from normal users to the
>>blackberry users gets delivered properly to both places. The problem
>>is external mail gets delivered on the internal host, then when it is
>>fowarded back out to the blackberry account it gets stopped as on the
>>smarthost, "unrouteable address" and bounces.
>
>
> One of your ACLs is presumably upset with the forwarded message. Try some
> tests with 'exim -bh <internal server ip>' to find out why.
>
> Peter
>
>

It is not mail originating from inside that is a problem. It is mail
from outside that passes through and then gets forwarded back out from
aliases that is becoming unrouteable.