Re: Exim and virtual mail hosting
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 05:36, Toby Batch wrote:
> Does anyone have any good howtos on this? I've been following the docs
> from exim but I've created my local domain dbm and added it to the
> local_domains directive (list of domains in /etc/local-domains;
> exim_dbmbuild /etc/local-domains /etc/local-domains.dnm)
>
> and added this to my exim.conf:
>
> virtual:
> driver = aliasfile
> domains = dbm;/etc/local-domains
> no_more
> file = /etc/mail/$domain
> search_type = lsearch
>
What version of exim are you using? Exim 3, I assume, if you are using
exim.conf. Where is this in your exim.conf? The directors section, I
assume?
> I created a (empty) file for each local domain in /etc/mail but when it
> try to send any mail i get:
>
> Exim configuration error
> auth virtual: cannot find auth driver "aliasfile" in line 482
>
sounds like you've got it in the authentication section. if that is the
case, a) the config format for your authenticator is incorrect b)
aliasfile is not an acceptable auth driver AFAIK
> I presume that this is because the aliasfile property in the above
> secification should either a directive or a file name.
>
correct. the file is in the format
# alias recipients
# --------- ------------
root: jane
friends: joe, fred@yahoo.com
complaints: billgates@microsoft.com
this lends it to use for redirections, but not authentication for which
you seem to be attempting to use it.
If you are setting up this mail server for the first time, I would
suggest getting a backported copy of exim4. This will save you the
hassle of upgrading later and having to adjust to a slightly different
style of configuration.
-davidc
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