Re: Unknown local-part

["Jeff Sheinberg" <jeff@bsrd.net>]

Pradeeper writes:
 > Hi Matthew
 > 
 > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:44:20AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
 > > > "viraja" is another email address of my domain. What could be the
 > > > problem?I have attached mainlog and exim.conf as well.
 > > 
 > > Does the user 'viraja' exist on the machine you've installed exim on?  Is
 > > there an entry for 'viraja' in /etc/aliases that points to an account that
 > > doesn't exist?
 > No! It doesn't have that user.
 > This is my workstation and it's only have "root" and myself only.
 > My email server is running on Lotus Domino R5 and I want to download all
 > the emails from there to my woody box( and read them using Mutt).
 > 
 > > Basically, the only circumstance in which you should receive this error is
 > > when the machine on which exim is running cannot get a name lookup for the
 > > username involved.  You can check it by running 'id viraja' on the machine
 > > exim is installed on.
 > Yes! this may be the problem. but sice this is my workstation I can't
 > have all the user ids that are in my email server has. There should be
 > some way of authentication methode to do this from my email server.
 > 
 > I have a another machine (Woody) which has KMail configured and it's working
 > fine with the setup( where Exim is not installed). I think this is something wrong in my exim.conf, Any idea?
 > 

This is an exim config problem, and should be discussed on
debian-user or exim-users, not here on debian testing.  This is
probably discussed on the exim web site in their excellent FAQ.

Here is the problem, it is a cheap form of address masquerading,
you are telling exim that unionb.com is a local domain, ie, it
tries to deliver any mail addressed to user@unionb.com *locally*,

    local_domains = localhost:unionb.com

Here is what I used in my exim config,

    local_domains = localhost:[127.0.0.1]

Last time I used exim was 2000-08.  I have also tried zmailer,
sendmail, and postfix until I discovered qmail - and I haven't
looked back since!

If you want to try qmail, email me, and I will send you my config.

-- 
Jeff Sheinberg