On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Joe Emenaker wrote: [in long unwrapped lines]
> 1) What if I want to have the same aliases for 'client.com' and 'mail.client.com'. Do I have to use a symlink in /etc/aliases, or is there some way to tell Exim "treat all subdomains of 'client.com' as just 'client.com'"
You could use a symlink, or you could do something fancy using the
expansion string features. For example, instead of $domain you could
write
${if match{$domain}{\\.client\\.com\$}{client.com}{$domain}}
but that would get tedious if there were lots of them. Or you could look
up $domain in a file to get the name of its alias file. Or you could
rewrite envelope addresses.
> 2) I know that Exim supports a default alias, via "*: defaultcontact@???". However, can I use regexps? For example, if I want to have "help" and "helpdesk" and "helpcenter" all go to the same person, I'd like to be able to say "help.*: jhelper@cl
ient.com". Can Exim do that?
No, because alias files are key/data lookups. You give it the key, it
gives you the data from an indexed file. "*" is just another keystring.
You would have to say:
help: someone@somewhere
helpdesk: help
helpcenter: help
in an alias file. The only way I can think of applying regular
expressions would be to use rewriting, and I don't really recommend
rewriting as a way of routing mail.
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