Re: default destination in exim?

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-02-17, Monique Y. Herman penned:
> Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias
> that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user
> by default?  If so, how, or where is it documented?
>
> In other words, if someone emails a non-existent user on the system, I
> want that mail to go to a specific place every time.
>
> This is exim 3.36 on unstable.

I tried adding

*: username

to /etc/aliases, but the system is still rejecting undefined usernames.

I'm confused; `man newaliases` says:

 It is  not actually necessary to notify exim of changes to /etc/aliases
 at all.

-- 
monique