> Perhaps this can give you a clue as to where it's going wrong. Let us > know what you find/what went wrong. My question was resolved over on the exim-users list: http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050530/msg00058.html For future reference, Debian specific Exim questions should be directed to: pkg-exim4-users@lists.alioth.debian.org Cheers, dev.random. > > From: Richard Darst <rd1-debian@zgib.net> > Date: 2005/05/29 Sun AM 12:17:27 GMT > To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases? > > hello, > > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:13:38AM +0000, dev.random@ntlworld.com wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a stock Sarge install for which I am trying to setup exim4. > > > > However, things are not behaving as expected. > > > > In /etc/aliases I have: > > > > root: me > > me: me@yahoo.com > > This is the correct place to put this, and I verified that order > doesn't matter. > > > On the box, I have run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config", selecting: > [...] > > All of those options should work, but I don't guarantee it. > > > However, when I run "mail root" on the box, exim decides the mail is > > for "root@mydomain.com", rather than me@yahoo.com (as I have > > specified in aliases). > > > > I suspect this has something to do with the precedence/priority of > > the aliases file? > > The previous replies have been correct in that you don't need to > rebuild the alias file. You also don't need to restart/reload exim4 (I > tested this). From what I can see, your setup should work. > > Here's my idea to debug it: > > From the exim4 man page, I've found this option: > -bt This option runs Exim in address testing mode, in which > > (there are other good tests in there) > > I run this and see: > > richard@lefschetz:~$ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bt someone > R: system_aliases for someone@xxxxxx.net > R: system_aliases for my_alias@xxxxxx.net > R: system_aliases for me@xxxxxx.net > R: userforward for me@xxxxxx.net > R: procmail for me@xxxxxx.net > me@xxxxxx.net > <-- xxxxxx@xxxxxx.net > <-- someone@xxxxxx.net > router = procmail, transport = procmail_pipe > > I saw a similar trace when I set the alias to me@some_other_domain. > Perhaps this can give you a clue as to where it's going wrong. Let us > know what you find/what went wrong. > > > -- > | Richard Darst - rkd@ - lefschetz: up 74 days, 19:20 > | zgib.net > | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
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