Yes, this indeed was the problem!

For some reason the mail was being sent to "user" even though I had no user
named that.

Thanks a bunch! I have had this problem for quite a while and never could
figure out how to fix it.



On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Bonno Bloksma <b.blok...@tio.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >[....]
> > so, if I want to use mail.example.com as my fqdn, and the old fqdn was
> something.else and r...@something.else was redirecting mail to
> m...@something.else ... then what do I need to change in Exim to make this
> happen?
>
> Is it maybe the aliases setting?
> Probably you edited the \etc\aliases file, it defines where to forward
> mail to. There will be a line like:
> root: me
> or
> root: m...@mail.example.com
> After saving the file it needs to be processed by the command
>  newaliases
> If you skip this file then mail to root will go to the old forward address
> and will fail if that no longer exists.
>
> Bonno Bloksma
>
>

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