Re: [Exim] Errors with exim4 and aliases-file

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Dla: Michael Jakscht
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Temat: Re: [Exim] Errors with exim4 and aliases-file
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Michael Jakscht wrote:

> on our mailhub we have the following /etc/aliases file structure:
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>
> root:
> root,\user1@???,\user2@???,\user3@???,\user4@???
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> Now our Notes-Server behind the mailhub remarks and complains about
> the backslash in the email-addresses.
> I suppose that exim doesn't need the backslashes...
> Can this be true?


Documented extensively in section 21.5. Backslash is only special if
there is no domain.

Remember, backslash may legally start an RFC 2822 address.

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