Re: [Exim] * alias

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:35:29AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Michael Stevens wrote:
> > Stupid question maybe but:
> > How do I setup 'weird' aliases in exim like the address
> > *@domain to forward to a specific email address
> > (where * is literal and not a wildcard).
> > What sorts of limits are there on this?
> Well, Exim will only take that address as a wildcard if you request
> wildcard searching in the search type, e.g. "lsearch*" instead of
> "lsearch". So the problem only arises if you want to have the literal
> *and* the wildcarding. In this case, the only way I can think of
> handling it is to use two directors. The first does the aliasing and no
> wildcarding; the second just does the wildcarding - and you could do
> that with a smartuser director.

Thanks, that's now working nicely.

Now I just have to deal with the complaints from people who get the
address mangled by their gateways...

And investigate other unusual addresses. My efforts to setup aliases
like '"a"' have failed so far... ie:
"@"@: michael@???