Re: [exim] Problem with Maildir delivery

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Author: Stephen Gran
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Problem with Maildir delivery
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:53:09PM +0000, Peter Whysall said:
> Andrew Nimmo wrote:
> >which debug option(s) did u specifiy with exim? could you re-run with
> >-d+deliver
>
> I added "-d -v" to QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS in /etc/default/exim4 (I'm using
> Ubuntu Linux 4.10 Warty Warthog)
>
> A further piece of information is that .forward consists of the single
> line "|/usr/bin/maildrop" for all users. My understanding at the moment
> is that .forward is executed when Exim has done everything it needs to do.


So there is your problem - user_forward router is run before local_user,
so maildrop gets the message (via the ~/.forward). What maildrop does
with it is something you'll have to work out - I don't use it.
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