Thus spake Suresh Ramasubramanian:

> does ajay exist in /etc/passwd?
>
> > 2. I'd created user Ajay using adduser followed by
> > passwd commands. Do I need to do anything in addition?
>
> this is a bit funny.  post on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see

The problem:
I had configured exim for both local and remote deliveries, 
but it used to say 'unrouteable address' when I sent mail 
to local users. The configure file seemed to be perfectly 
okay and the user did exist; and yet it couldn't perform 
local delivery. 

The Solution:
It was simply a case of case-difference ;-) The user name 
was Ajay, and the mail was sent to Ajay (note capital A in 
both the instances), and yet exim searched for user ajay! 
(note small a) 

Why?

Was Exim trying to make up for the user's stupidity? I 
suppose user-ids should always be made up of small-case 
alphas and other permitted chars?

Whew! It took almost a week to sort this out.

Thanks to Suresh and Jai for testing out my configure 
file, which finally led me to the solution.


Cordially,

Ajay Shankar

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