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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *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
