Re: [Exim] Slight Bug with aliases

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Adam D. Barratt
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Slight Bug with aliases
Colin Harford wrote, Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:48 PM
[...]
> What happens if say the primary server name is set to mail.blah.com,
> and there is an alias for blah2.com.
>
> In the alias file for blah2.com there is:
>
> alias1: alias2
> alias2: account1
>
>
> If somethings comes in for alias1@???, it tries to match alias2
> as an account or in the alias file mail.blah.com. When it does not
> find it in either, then it rejects the email.


Is qualify_domain (or qualify_recipient if set) by any chance set to
`blah.com'? (More specifically, *not* set to `blah2.com'). If so, then the
lookup is trying to resolve the unqualified `alias2' to alias2@???
which probably doesn't exist.

Change blab2.com's alias file to:

    alias1: alias2@???
    alias2: account1


If account1 is also at blah2.com, then it needs to be

    alias2: account1@???


hth

Adam