Re: [exim] redirecting root email

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Autor: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] redirecting root email
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:48:23 -0800, Cere Davis <cere@???>
wrote:
>I am running exim 4.44 on a debian sarge box


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>and cannot for the life of me
>figure out how to redirect mail that goes to the root account to go to a
>non-root user.


That is handled by the Debconf part of installation; the package
should have asked that question on installation and it should have
created an appropriate /etc/aliases file.



> I have tried setting an alias in the /etc/aliases file,


that should work

>tried setting something in root's .forward file but nothing works. I try
>debugging the user routing with exim4 -bt but I have never been able to get
>root mail to do anything other than get sent out as root@$DOMAIN....which
>is NOT what I want. Any ideas? Would be happy to send more diagnostic
>information if I knew of any that would be helpful.


How about pasting the output of exim4 -bt root here?

On pkg-exim4-users, you could post your update-exim4.conf.conf, but if
you want to have help here, you'll need to post the relevant parts of
your configuration. You can either edit down your
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated or run update-exim4.conf with the
appropriate options to write the configuration to some other file
without stripping away the comments.

Since root redirection happens in a pretty normal /etc/aliases file
with no special handling in the exim configuration, I am quite
interested in the contents of your /etc/aliases.

Greetings
Marc

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