Re: catch-all in /etc/aliases

[James Cummings <cummings.james@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:02:06 +0100, James Cummings
<cummings.james@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm using debian unstable and exim4 and forwarding a bunch of
> mail on for another system using /etc/aliases
> 
> Firstname.Lastname: Firstname.Lastname@other.system.com
> Firstname1.Lastname1: Firstname1.Lastname1@other.system.com
> etc.
> 
> Is there a way to put a catch-all address in so that any
> mail I've not explicitly matched can be sent to  foo@another.system.com  ?
> 
> I've tried just putting *: foo@another.system.com  and
> doing @first.system.com :  foo@another.system.com
> but that doesn't seem to work.

Aha!  Replying to my own post:  For the record I have found that 
the way to do this is...
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Exim 4 Catchall
Add another file in the router directory for catchall to work.

 hendry@bilbo:/etc/exim4/conf.d/router$ cat 950_exim4-config_catchall 
 catch_all:
   debug_print = "R: catch_all for $local_part@$domain"
   driver = redirect
   data = ${lookup{*}lsearch{/etc/aliases}}

 hendry@bilbo:/etc/exim4/conf.d/router$ egrep hendry /etc/aliases 
 root: hendry
 *: hendry
With other people. I have yet to figure out how to configure different
aliases for different hosts, but I am not worried about that problem
atm.
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As detailed at http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~hendry/faqwiz/faqw.py?req=all#1.79 
and this doesn't do multiple hosts well, but works for what I want.

-James

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