On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:14:59 -0400 John Masinter wrote:
> Hi! I've read the manual and searched the mailist archive to no avail.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> I run exim with multiple domains, and use a single alias file for all
> domains. I have a local shell account and mailbox on my system for 'bob'.
> I want bob to get mail at 'bob@???' and reject mail to 'bob@???'
> In my configure file I have:
> system_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> file = /etc/aliases
> search_type = lsearch*@
> include_domain = true
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> In my aliases file I have:
> bob@???: bob
> *@one.com: :unknown:
> ...<skip a few lines>...
> tim@???: tim
> jim@???: jim
> *@two.com: :unknown:
> But mail to 'bob@???' still gets put in bob's mailbox.
> Why? What did I miss? It seems like the existence of a local
> user/mailbox overrides the '*@two.com' catch all.
Yes, as long as you have a localuser director. For this reason
I removed it from my config.
HTH,
Bernard Stern, SWITCH
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