Re: [exim] Virtual mailboxes not working on new install.

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Many thanks Jeremy

Apologies for the wrong threading and delay in responding, I'm not
getting list replies as direct mails.

That explains a lot! I must have found someone's suggested config and
adapted that, when I set it up fifteen years ago.

I'm using the Debian split config, and would probably be better to
reconfigure and choose the single-file format. But I suspect the
Debian version is different in other ways beyond that. The Debian exim
forum (or the only one I found) seems to be pretty dead and all in
German.

It would make sense to start from scratch on the new server. May I put
down my requirements here and ask for suggestions e.g. existing example
configs?

What I currently have and need to replicate is as follows.
I have two local domains I receive mails for. I use /etc/aliases, and
also files for each domain of the form /etc/exim4/virtual/<domain>
which contain redirects for all valid users. Each valid mail ends up
in one of four Maildirs, under /var/mail/virtual/local though I'm told
that path is now tainted. I can change the path to whatever would be
valid, so long as it doesn't have to be a Linux user's home dir, as one
of my users is virtual and has no entry in /etc/passwd and no home dir.
(Though I can create one if I have to.)

/etc/aliases and the domain files have some lines which pipe mails for
certain users to scripts that handle them. This is the way I create my
own basic mailing lists though they go as plaintext not SSL or TLS and
might now be better handled a different way.

Thanks!

Adrian

>>It's not an Exim thing and never has been.

It's probably a thing specific to the config you are running.

> So maybe what I'm asking is for some simple documentation with examples
> of how to set up the same behaviour under exim4 ver 4.92


>>The project documentation is at http://exim.org/docs.html

However, you seem to be running a Debian-derived installation -
and they have a whole complex configuration. You may be better
off asking in a Deb-specific forum.

>>If you want to start from scratch, you could either run the Debian

configuration script (I don't know if it supports your needs, but
it's not unlikely) - or wipe all your config and develop one from
scratch.

>>Exim has extensive debug output possibilities, either from commandline

options or triggered by the config. See the docs.

>>On the certificate message: yes, it's a new check. But the lack of

a cert means that you weren't successfully running TLS with Exim in
server mode before.

>>--
>>Cheers,
>>Jeremy