I'm working through the homework you gave me Phil.
So far, it seems like I ought to use "forwardfile".
Once again, for a more precise description....
I want to forward addresses that aren't necessarily
users on localhost. Neither nathan or jenny mentioned
below have an account on localhost.
Nathan
At 03:53 AM 10/5/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On 2001-10-04 at 19:33 -0600, Nathan wrote:
> > For a more precise description of what I need:
> >
> > nathan@??? goes to nathan@???
> > jenny@??? goes to jenny@???
> > etc
>
>But only for a limited set of people on the
>left-hand-side? Because you
>don't control bar.com, do you?
>
> > Off the top of your head, do you know how to do this?
>
>Lots of ways ...
>
> > I'm a total newbie. Where should I look to find info
> > on "directors" such as "smartuser"?
> > Where would I find the FAQ you refered to?
>
><http://www.exim.org/>, click on "Documentation and
>FAQs" on the
>top-left frame, then there's "Exim Overview" for
>general information,
>"The Exim Specification" for full documentation, or
>"exim FAQ" for the
>FAQ.
>
>If you just want to redirect a few address in foo.com
>to be @bar.com,
>then yes, use an alias-file. How this is set up
>depends upon whether
>most address in foo.com actually exist locally, or if
>only the few
>entries in foo.com which you specify in the alias
>file should exist in
>foo.com at all.
>
>Read the Overview. Then go to the Specification,
>read section 3, skim
>6, read 7 (at least 7, 7.1 .. 7.3, 7.11 & 7.12; you
>can just about get
>away with skimming the others), then read section 23
>"The aliasfile
>director" and refer to section 22 a bit too. Then go
>look over the FAQ,
>at the DIRECTING stuff in part 4, part 14 if you're
>on a dial-up
>connection, and just glance over the rest to get a
>kinda idea.
>
>Alternatively, for a nicer introduction and good
>read, if you think that
>you're going to be tinkering with Exim much, invest
>in the book. :^)
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/>
>It's written by the author of Exim, so you'll have a
>convenient source
>of information to read at your leisure, which sets
>things out really
>clearly and walks you through scenarios. And be
>contributing a bit of
>money back to the author of your MTA. :^)
>--
>"Look at how stupid America is anyway: over 200 years
>later, and we still
>learn the language of our former oppressors in
>school. Fortunately, we don't
>learn how to spell, so not very many people notice."
>- author's name on request
