Re: [exim] Catchall catching everything

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Author: Antony Gelberg
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To: exim-users
CC: Chris Cowen
Subject: Re: [exim] Catchall catching everything
Adrian Zaugg wrote:
> Hi Antony
>
> You can try out what happens, using exims test feature:
> exim -bt -d13 fe@???
> This simulates a delivery. You might see another director delivering
> mail than you expect.


Got it, thanks for the very useful and obvious tip! The systam_aliases
director looked up fe, and mapped it to ferenc. However even though
ferenc was a local user, exim then attempted to lookup ferenc with
system_aliases rather than deliver to his mailbox.

I have "fixed" this by moving the localuser director above
system_aliases, so that it runs first. Question is, am I running the
risk of breaking anything by doing this? It seems to me that localuser
would always need to be above system_aliases to avoid this problem, so I
wonder why the default was as it was.

> You may want to see my example config of full domain aliasing under
> http://ente.limmat.ch/kb/exim/exim_v3_with_virtual_domains.html


That's a bit complex for this server - it only has the one domain.

Antony