ok... Call me an idiot.. Flame me for not RTFM... but Errmm...how do I do
what's recommended :)... I don't have a huge ammount of exposure to the
inner workings on Exim... this is only my second install of the program :)
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth Matt Wright on Mon, Dec 24, 2001:
> > i've recently setup my company's email system, and the boss wants all
> > undeliverable mail to goto his email address instead of bouncing.
>
> He's stupid, kinda. I would understand if it were _in addition
> to_ bouncing.
>
> And *all* mail or just mail to your local domain? I assume the
> latter in my reply below.
>
> > I've
> > done what seems logical and put * in the alias file along with several
> > others. However. Now instead of just sending underliverable mail to his
> > address, it sends EVERYTHING.
>
> Of course. When the processing reaches the system_aliases
> director, it looks up an address, finds the *, delivers the
> message and doesn't proceed to forwardfile and localuser. Remove
> the * and undo what you did.
>
> After the last director (Exim 3, right?), add a smartuser
> director to forward all mail to your dear boss. Make it unseen,
> so bounces will still go to the senders.
>
> Before the forwardfile director, insert an unseen smartuser
> director to forward all your boss's mail to you. If he doesn't
> respect the privacy of others (after all, if your lover misspells
> your local part as 'mattt', why would it justify his reading of
> the message?), you shouldn't respect his privacy either.
>
> Vadik.
>
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