[Pkg-exim4-users] Forwarding

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-05-25 Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
>> Peter Sparkes <peter at didm.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I am having problems getting forwarding to a off-site email address  
>>> working on a Debian system.

>>> Help please

>>> My .forward file is

>>> # Exim filter
>>> unseen deliver you at offsite.email.address
>>> finish

>>> My 600_exim4-config_userforward file

>> [unchanged from the one we ship]

>>> I suspect that I do not have the correct transport in my  
>>> 600_exim4-config_userforward file but do not know what to put in

>> Could you please tell us what the actual error is (log file entries,
>> error messages, etc.)? This should just work.

> I get nothing in the /var/log/exim4 mainlog, paniclog or rejectlog and  
> no email is even delivered to the original addressee. When I remove the  
> .forward file from the user's home directory the email is delivered to  
> the original addressee and there are the appropriate entries in the 
> mainlog.

Please check the output of
echo blah | exim4 -d whateverthelocal at adressis 

cu andreas
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