[Pkg-exim4-users] Problems with Exim4 in Ubuntu (Ursa Polaris)

[Chris Scully]

Is your mail server serving more than one domain?

I ran into this issue when setting up exim4 and after beating my head 
against the wall for hours I finally realized I left my local domain off 
of the list of domains served when I ran dpkg-reconfigure.  I added the 
domain and everything worked fine from there.

Chris

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> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:14 -0700
> From: Ursa Polaris <polaris.ursa at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Pkg-exim4-users] Problems with Exim4 in Ubuntu
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>    Hello folks! I recently migrated some web and DB systems from some
> old machines to new servers in a facility, and everything appears to
> have moved over smoothly except my mail services. I migrated from
> Debian Sarge to Ubuntu 8.0 and ran a full apt-get upgrade immediately
> after install to be up to date. Postfix (blech) was the default MTA
> installed, so I promptly ran an apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy
> which installed the heavy exim4 package and all required dependencies.
> Here's where things get fun:
>
> I used sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config as usual to setup my basic
> MTA prefs; full internet MTA, set my bind addresses, my domains (I
> host multiple but all mail for <user> goes to the same user regardless
> of domain and that's fine) and told it not to use the split conf
> files.
>
> I then copied over my /etc/aliases file from the old server and kicked
> exim4 with a sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
>
> Now when I try to send mail to regular user (with no alias, just a
> plain account) mail works just fine
>
> When I try to send to an address that has an alias with a :fail:
> command it works fine and the fail msg is sent back to the sending
> client
>
> However, when I try to send to an alias that redirects mail from one
> existing user to another (i.e. root: webmaster) OR when I try to send
> to a "real-user" alias (i.e. abuse: real-admin), I get a "550
> Unrouteable address" error from exim4.
>
> I have poured over my configs between the old server and the new one,
> and I can't find the difference. Is there some tiny setting somewhere
> that instructs exim4 to be able to use the "real-user" alias format or
> allow a real account to be re-routed to another real account that I
> may have overlooked?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> - Ursa
>
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