On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:26, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-02-17, Monique Y. Herman penned:
> > Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias
> > that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user
> > by default? If so, how, or where is it documented?
> >
> > In other words, if someone emails a non-existent user on the system, I
> > want that mail to go to a specific place every time.
> >
> > This is exim 3.36 on unstable.
>
> I tried adding
>
> *: username
>
> to /etc/aliases, but the system is still rejecting undefined usernames.
>
> I'm confused; `man newaliases` says:
>
> It is not actually necessary to notify exim of changes to /etc/aliases
> at all.
>
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> monique
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Try adding the following to exim.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses}
{$value}fail}
You will also need to put * into /etc/email-addresses
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