Re: [Exim] Having a little trouble with some aliases

Quoth Matt Wright on Wed, Dec 26, 2001:
> ok... Call me an idiot.. Flame me for not RTFM...

I'd better flame you for top-posting (i.e., writing your text
before the quoted text) instead.

> 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 :)

What is not understood?

> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > 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.

This should be sufficient, unless I was unclear.

> > 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.

Read about the smartuser director. If you don't understand
something, mail the list.

> > 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.

This you will need to figure out yourself.

Vadik.

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