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I have setup Exim and Teapop, and mail is going into my server from other people, and I can send mail out, but the problem is, when mail comes into the server, it just sits in the "/var/spool/exim/input" folder and doesnt get delived to (I think its supposed to be) "/var/mail/username" folder, thus its all just piling up (currently 1036 mails).
well, you've given precious little information really... what does the exim log file say about incoming mail? (run eximon) do you have a valid local transport configured? e.g:
Code:
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
file = /var/mail/$local_part
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
group = mail
i'm not too hot with the intricacies of exim yet, but you'ev commented out the mail delivery group, which might be causing problems, moreover though... log files, you'll probably be screaming for attention.
I dont see an entry for log files at all, never mind commenting them out. These are all commented out by default. The group and user exim didnt exist. I have created them, but I dont think it helped.
I have lots of the mail comming in and stuff, but it doesnt say anything about local delivery or that its even trying.
well exmion should be in the same directory as the exim executable, the default location is /usr/exim/bin/eximon form a source install... if you can't find it, try whereis eximon or updatedb and then locate eximon.
If I try and send it to any of the other user accounts I just get......
550 unknown user
Even though they have an account with password set etc. Is there something else I need to do to their accounts before hand?
Also I have searched but cant find out how I can specify email aliases either (NOT domain aliases). Well, how to change it, as it says add the aliases to /etc/aliases but then how does it know who to send it to?
Turned out anything in the aliases file seems to be automatically errored with the message "unrouteable address" in the log (and unknown user is the response by email).
The other users I didnt notice were aliases to themselves in the aliases file, I removed that and its fine for them now, but aliases are still not working.
What format does it have to be in? Is it like this.....
That's the right syntax. I noticed above that you're editing /etc/aliases, but I think exim is looking for /etc/mail/aliases. I'm not sure though. I think I saw this in your exim.conf, but the link is down now.
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