Re: exim, mailname and aliases
Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme@gmail.com> writes:
> 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).
Hm, I don't understand what you are trying to achieve. Incoming mail is
delivered from where to where? On which host do you change the
mailname?
> 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 ...
What is in your aliases files? In which way are they broken? Are you
referring to recipient or to sender addresses?
> Probably there is a better and cleaner way to reroute local users (not
> individually, please) than to forge /etc/mailname?
What do you mean by "re-route local users"?
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