[ale] Exim4 conf for local mail

[J.M. Taylor]

Jim,

Did you sort out your Exim problem? I didn't see that anybody had
responded but I've been not around during Xmas...

exim -bt -d username

(as root, it won't tell you as much as any other user) is one of the
handiest things to know with Exim.  It gives you a pretty thorough debug
of which parts of the config file it's hitting and at what stage it fails.
 You can also start exim with full debugging in the log files to help
pinpoint what's going on, but remember to turn it off when you're done! ;)

Without knowing anything else about your problem, it sounds like a
permissions on the mailbox thing to me,I had all sorts of troubles running
exim as user exim and trying to deliver to local mailboxes...by default I
believe it attempts to deliver unqualified addresses to the local machine.
 In this particular case the log files helped me more than the exim -bt
-d, but ususally a combination of the two can solve most exim issues.

Good luck
jenn

Jim Seymour said:
> Trying to configure exim4 to deliver local email without adding the
> internet email address.  So user ralph can send mail to user ed without
> it adding ralphs internet email address to the reply field and user ed
> can just reply to the message and it be delivered locally.  I have
> /etc/email-addresses set to reflect their internet email address.
> Without that set they cannot send any outbound mail.  I had this worked
> out under sendmail when I was using RedHat.  Now using Debian Sarge.  I
> have read the docs however nothing struck me as the answer to my
> problem.  If it makes any difference I am using mutt as my mua.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim Seymour
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