Sorry to be useless but didn't capture the output from the failed run 'cos I was expecting to run other tests, and it then started working!
The gist of the original error was no "user root at foo.com" when root was the sender, not the recipient. I made no changes to any configuration file nor even restarted exim, the only new thing was trying mail -v -s. I don't know if it coincided with something being refreshed, this is a mystery to me. I literally did nothing excepting run mail (which failed) followed by exim -d -M (which also failed) then run mail -v which worked. On 10 June 2012 10:17, Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> OK, now I'm confused, I tried again and the message got frozen, the >> diagnostics said I was trying to send to [email protected] rather than >> [email protected], I wasn't! I tried again using the mail command with mail >> -v -s .... and it worked, and has worked a few times since. >> > > So why not show us the output here? > > Did you edit the aliasfile (/etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases - whichever > you have used in your system_aliases router) to map root user to your > [email protected] ?? > > > -- > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254733744121/+254722743223 > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. > -- ## List details at https://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/
