On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:09:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I have setup a mail server using exim. I have it working pretty well,
> but I can't figure out how to send mail for non existant users to a real
> user. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist so I would like all mail sent to
> this address to be forwarded to another account (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'd
> appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.
if you have /etc/aliases, just have the last 'alias' be something
like
*: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
so that mail that doesn't go to anyone else in particular will wind
up going to user 'fail-safe'...
this works via exim's alias director facility which looks something
like this:
system_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/aliases
search_type = lsearch
to have virtual domains on your box (where several domain names are
attached to your solo IP number, as is the case with me) you can have
per-domain aliases, like this:
virtual_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
domains = "partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS"
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/exim/${domain_data}
search_type = "lsearch*"
here, the /etc/exim/DOMAINS file is a list of domain/filename pairs:
*.dontuthink.com: dontuthink
*.bucks2browse.com: bucks2browse
*.buckstobrowse.com: bucks2browse
if the domain-part of a message (@somewhere.org) matches a pattern on
the left, the result on the right is returned into the $domain_data
variable. note that several 'domains' can share a file, as is shown
here (bucks2browse, with a digit, and bucksTObrowse, without).
then, the line
file = /etc/exim/${domain_data}
tells exim to look in the file /etc/exim/bucks2browse (for example)
for user-level aliases, as in
b2b: wdt
gotrox: will
kat*: kat
*: rdt
so email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
will both get to user 'kat', for example, and anything that doesn't
go to anyone else in particular will go to user 'rdt'.
if you put this virtual-alias director BEFORE the system alias director,
then the virtual aliases will override the system aliases (sequence matters).
if you want system aliases to override domain-specific aliases, put the
virtual section AFTER the system alias section.
--
things are more like they used to be than they are now.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
