Re: [Exim] alias@* mail coming through to me

Daniel Dainty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am the local admin for my site, using Exim 4.13, and I've noticed a
> strange problem where, if any user sends mail to any domain, but the alias
> matches one that's in my /etc/aliases file, then it gets passed through the
> aliases file, and eventually ends at me (as I am aliased to root, and
> everything is aliased to root).
>
> This obviously creates problems when people try to send mail to
> webmaster@??? and it ends up in my inbox (which happened
> today)...
>
> Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening and how I can stop it?
>
> Thanks in advance,

Check your routers, your aliasfile-router (systemaliases) is placed
before the routers that handle the other domains, or the others do not
handle these addresses, and it falls through to the system_alias router.

exim -d -bt webmaster@???

should show you why, post the relevant parts of you config if you need
more help.

Nico