Re: [EXIM] aliasing

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] aliasing
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:30:49 GMT, you wrote:
>> I have setup exim, so that each virtual host has its on alias file.
>> However what I want to do is to allow people who have a .co.uk and a
>> .com domain to use the same alias file, if they wish, or to have
>> separate ones, is there an easy way to do this, or should I be looking
>> down a dns route.
>
>Set up two aliasfile directors for the domains wibble.com and wibble.co.uk
>but make them both use the same aliases file......
>
>Drawback is that you may end up with a lot of aliasfile directors.....


I have a single alias file director
|system_aliases:
| driver = aliasfile
| file = /etc/aliases/$domain
| search_type = lsearch


for all my virtual domains. If I want two domains to be identical, I
symlink one domain to the other in /etc/aliases.

Seems to work reasonably well.

Greetings
Marc

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