Re: exim, mailname and aliases
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:02:22 +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> 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?
If this was Postfix, I would suggest that you look at the address
rewriting rules for doing a selective routing of the outgoing messages
based on their location (local or remote users). For Exim, I'm not sure
how this is handled.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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