OK so I am getting the feeling this is easier to accomplish using exim4.
So it's seems like a compelling upgrade at this point. Unfortunately I
am running Debian/stable and have installed Exim via dpkg and I cannot
seem to locate a deb for exim 4. I would prefer not to circumvent the
dpkg database and I have no Idea how to compile a .deb
If this is NOT possible using exim3 could someone please point me toward
an exim4 .deb
~ray
> > If I have a system user named johnny
> >
> > Johnny recieves alot of spam addressed to johnny@???
> > I would like to bouce all mail delivered to johnny@??? but deliver
> > all mail addressed to john@??? as well as johnny@???.
> >
> > According to the documentation this can be accomplished with these 2 lines
> > in /etc/aliases
> >
> > johnny@???: :unknown:
> > john: johnny
>
> That is not enough, because after john has been turned into johnny, it
> will be re-evaluated and will hit the first line.
>
> Actually, that won't work anyway, because you have a mixture of keys,
> some including a domain and some not. You'll either need to use two
> routers, or adjust the new addresses.
>
> You can stop the re-aliasing happening be setting the redirect_router
> option on the router to tell Exim where to start routing the new
> address. An alternative would be to block mail to johnny at SMTP time
> using an ACL.
>
> > I would also like to know if it is possible to have mail that is returned
> > (responded to with an undeliverable error) in this manner to be delivered
> > anyway.
>
> Yes, in a number of ways, some involving the "unseen" option, and some
> involving the system filter.
>
> > I am running exim 3.35 on debian/stable
>
> Ah. In that case, a lot of what I said above doesn't make too much
> sense, because it applies to Exim 4. However, some of the facilities
> were available in Exim 3, but in different ways.
>
> Sorry, I'm rapidly forgetting how to do things on Exim 3, since Exim
> 4 has been out for nearly a year now.
>
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>
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