Re: exim and local_part

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 364AFE0B.EC3C1DFB@hsomail.com>:

>so everytime a send a message to any user, let say joe.user
>exim correctly change the 'to:' field to "joe.user@my.domain.name"
>but then it claims:
>
>joe.user@my.domain.name:
>  unknown local-part "joe.user" in domain "my.domain.name"

Do you have a user "joe.user" in your password file? If not, then how
is exim supposed to know how to deliver the email?

If the user's login name is 'joe', you can put aliases into
/etc/aliases, e.g.:

joe.user:       joe


Paul Slootman
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