Re: How to forward by default in exim
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Hi,
"Matthew W. Roberts" <matt@lehi.tamu.edu> writes:
> On May 09, 2000 at 08:01:03AM, Paul McHale wrote:
> > I recently received the domain desinc.com from another company.
> >Occasionally, exim reports that I have mail bound for someone at
> >desinc.com for which I have no local account. Is there a way to
> >forward all such mail to their new domain?
>
> I don't know how to do it within Exim. One way to do it is to setup a
> `dummy' account on your machine and have all such mail go to that
> account. Then put the address to which you want to forward mail in
> /home/dummy/.forward.
Or simply to add entries into /etc/aliases. Remember to run `newaliases`
when you've finished editing that file.
You probably don't want all mail for unknown recipients to be automatically
forwarded. Probably a 'Bad Thing' (tm). Use individual aliases instead,
even if you just alias them all to postmaster@new.domain.
- --
Graeme.
graeme+sig@mathie.cx
"Life's not fair," I reply. "But the root password helps." - BOFH
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