Re: [Exim] Forcing a failure during delivery, something wron…

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Odhiambo Washington
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Forcing a failure during delivery, something wrong ...

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> * Georges Arnould <garnould@???> [20010606 14:09]: writing on the subject '[Exim] Forcing a failure during delivery, something wrong ...'
> Georges> Hi !
> Georges>
> Georges>     Here is my problem : I want to be able to force failure for some users
> Georges> ... I have some aliases files, formatted like this :
> Georges>
> Georges>     name:    alias
> Georges>
> Georges>     When I want to force a failure, I put
> Georges>
> Georges>     name:    :fail:
> Georges>
> Georges>     But in my configuration, exim writes the mail into a ' :fail: ' file
> Georges> (file's named :fail:) ...
> Georges>
> Georges>     Here is my configuration for director :

>
> All your other details aside, did you run newaliases after editing the


Uhm... 'newaliases' is a sendmil thing, which compiles the plaintext
/etc/aliases into the approprate dbm format for sendmail. This is
completely irrelevant to exim.



> aliases file? Do you have other working aliases in that file?
> Does your exim rightly mention the file where you store your aliases?
>
> HTH
>
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