My BSD wrote: > Good day! > > Set up v. 4.69 (compiled from source) on Ubuntu Hardy box with a fully > qualified domain name (with proper RDNS) for the purpose of delivering > outgoing business mail from local users. > > Local users do not have local accounts, instead, they have accounts on > an external E-Mail host with corresponding entries in the aliases file > pointing to their external accounts, as follows: > > user1: [email protected] > user2: [email protected] > ,,, > > Messages from one local user to another are forwarded to the local user's > external account without incident. > > But local delivery error messages are frozen with the following log entries: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2009-05-26 04:16:49 1M8rq5-0003kh-LJ ** [[email protected]] > <[[email protected]]>: Unknown user > > 2009-05-26 04:16:49 1M8rq5-0003kh-LJ Frozen (delivery error message)" > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Any ideas? >
" Local users do not have local accounts, " Look at your routers and the transports they call. - why would one of those ID's - by definition, with '..no local account' be latched-on-to for local delivery at all? - and if/as/when it is, *where* would Exim expect to deliver it? NOT having 'local accounts' as in shell login, a /home/<usrname> dirtree, or an mbox or maildir under /var/mail/<username> is fine. But if the the only 'virtualization' you do is driven by /etc/[mail]/aliases. you must either insure those addresees are NOT taken up by a local delivery router/transport in the first instance, OR provide it with a place to drop 'em or the privs to create such on-the-fly if you DO allow it. 'The aliases file' BTW does not have to be the *system* aliases file, either. Sometimes easier to manage if it is of the same structure, but otherwise separate. HTH, Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
