Re: exim: root@localhost not delivered
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 04:32:53PM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Why does exim (on my potato) not deliver mails to root@localhost?
Because exim defalt prohibits it for the security concern.
Check your /etc/exim.conf. Mine has:
....
# No local deliveries will ever be run under the uids of these users (a colon-
# separated list). An attempt to do so gets changed so that it runs under the
# uid of "nobody" instead. This is a paranoic safety catch. Note the default
# setting means you cannot deliver mail addressed to root as if it were a
# normal user. This isn't usually a problem, as most sites have an alias for
# root that redirects such mail to a human administrator.
never_users = root
....
Check /etc/aliases of your system too. Mine contain:
root: normalusername
Good luck
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