Re: [EXIM] Single host has multiple domain names

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Author: Ben Smithurst
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To: David Waine
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Single host has multiple domain names
David Waine wrote:

> The host that runs exim is known as aaa.bbb.yyy.com for historic
> reasons. Some users would like to be known as xxx.yyy.com (a much nicer
> address, I'm sure you'll agree). Now I can create a record in the DNS
> database that points xxx.yyy.com to my machine, but of course exim does
> not see it as the local host and attempts to exchange it with the
> correct machine which of course it can't find.
>
> So my question is; can I name a single host as having several "local"
> addresses so that mail for dwaine@??? and dwaine@???
> will be delivered to the same mailbox? I've read a section in the doc
> on "aliases", and can't understand/make it work. Maybe I've got the
> wrong option...


Is local_domains what you want?

local_domains = aaa.bbb.yyy.com:xxx.yyy.com

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