Re: [Exim] Can noforward-user skip .forward?

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2000-08-25 at 11:37 -0700, Marc MERLIN gifted us with:
> > So, I'd like to do an expn on the mail server to see if the Email resolves
> > to something else and capture that, but I don't want the .forward to kick in
> > and show me /home/user/Mail/inbox. I also don't want to see if they forward
> > mail to some other machine.
> >
> > I used to do an exim -bt -C /etc/exim.noforward.conf back when the lists
> > where running on the mail server, but that's no more, and one machine should
> > not be able to automatically log in the other one.
> > That's why I'm trying to check names through the SMTP interface.
>
> Add 'no_expn' to the aliasfile director(s).

Actually, he probably wants it in the forwardfile director, since that
is the bit he doesnt want to see when doing EXPN - he does want to see
the aliases..

One question I might have is what if the aliasfile points at an
off-site address? Or are you simply going to reject anything where
<user@localdomain> doesnt expand to the exact same <user@localdomain>
(w/o checking .forward top elsewhere, which you want to permit), to
detect any case where any anything other than a local account's primary
address is used?

>
> Define 'smtp_expn_hosts' in the main config section.
>
> AIUI this should allow you to use EXPN via SMTP and have it ignore
> aliases.
>

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