Re: [Exim] default delivery from aliases file

On 2002-01-22 at 22:01 +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Various bits of on-line documentation led me to believe that I can put
> a line like "*: edmund" in /etc/aliases to get all otherwise
> undelivered mail sent to me, but it doesn't work, even when I added
> the '*' in exim.conf:
>
> system_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> file = /etc/aliases
> search_type = lsearch*
>
> What's the best way of achieving this?

If you want the delivery to fail, but receive notification, then the
other answers given address this.

If you are the only user on this system, so mis-addressed mail won't be
much of an issue, then the above should work. I think. I could do with
more coffee before I'm prepared to say that without an "I think"
qualification. :^)

How does it fail?

What do you see if you run:
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$ cat <<EOMAIL | exim -d2 qwerty
From: nobody
To: qwerty
Subject: test

foo
EOMAIL
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?

You might want to add this to the command-line:
2>&1 | tee my_logged_output
to capture the text easily.
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