Re: default destination in exim?
On 2004-02-18, Mike Fedyk penned:
> 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
>
When I do this, all mail to any user on the system gets sent to that
account, not just mail to non-existent users. Eek!
--
monique
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