Re: easy? exim problem

[JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller)]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:33:38PM -0700, Cam wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm having a little problem w/ exim... I've set it up many times in the
> past successfully, but this time I cannot seem to do it.  I have it so
> that it delivers 'local mail only' but that doesn't work at all for some
> reason (shouldn't local mail only always work??).  Anyway, if i try to
> send mail to cmatheson@localhost, or cmatheson, or cmatheson@tux, it
> seems to go fine, but i never get the message (mutt reports that there
> is no /var/mail/cmatheson (which is true, so i tried `touch`ing it, but
> that didn't help). 

Hi,

maybe your mail goes to /var/spool/mail/name . Often, /var/spool/mail ist a symlink to /var/mail (check that on your system).
Or check the setting in /etc/exim/exim.conf . As you see, mine points to /var/spool/mail/joachim .

######################################################################
#                      TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION                      #
######################################################################
#                       ORDER DOES NOT MATTER                        #
#     Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.    #
######################################################################
(...)
local_delivery:
  driver = appendfile
  group = mail
  mode = 0660
  mode_fail_narrower = false
  envelope_to_add = true
  return_path_add = true
  file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}


HTH, Joachim

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Joachim Fahnenmüller
Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik

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