exim, mailname and aliases

[Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme@gmail.com>]

Hello list,

I'm into a slight struggle with my mail servers. They are satellite
systems (no local mail, everything goes to a smarthost). I figured out
that by changing the mailname to generaldomain.com instead of
themachineshostname.generaldomain.com, all users' mail get delivered
to user@generaldomain.com (I create users with usernames that exist as
a mail alias/address in that domain).
BUT
this breaks the aliases file. "special" or system users, like root,
are not rewritten to me@generaldomain.com, they are smarthosted with
their original user id -->  root@generaldomain.com ...

Probably there is a better and cleaner way to reroute local users (not
individually, please) than to forge /etc/mailname?

-- 
Frank Van Damme
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