Re: default destination in exim?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:49:12PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned:
> >>
> > Try adding the following to exim.conf
> >
> > *@yourdomain.com ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses}
> > {$value}fail}
>
> In which section would this go?
>
> > You will also need to put * into /etc/email-addresses
>
> Um, something here is making me nervous. Would I have to then enumerate
> every possible mail user in /etc/email-addresses as well?
>
> Ie, if joe, bob, and dan are actual users on my machine, but do not have
> entries in /etc/email-addresses, and I put the rewrite rule you suggest
> into my config, will all of their email go to the user defined for * ?
>
> I don't understand why putting
> *: username
> in my /etc/aliases file doesn't seem to work =/
Search for "/etc/aliases" in your exim.conf, and s/lsearch/lsearch*/ to put
a literal "*" after lsearch.
Then put "*: <destination username>" at the end of /etc/aliases and your
concerns will be taken into account.
Mike
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