On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:39:55 +0200, "Timo Neuvonen"
<timo-news@???> wrote:
>What is the nicest way to make exim 4.50 to route these messages into a
>maibox assigned for root in /etc/alias file?
>
>2005-03-06 22:49:14 1D82ga-00067Q-Qg <= root@localhost H=localhost
>(garfield.tee-en.net) [127.0.0.1] P=smtp S=810
>2005-03-06 22:49:14 1D82ga-00067Q-Qg ** root@localhost: Unrouteable address
>
>The messages are sent by some local service with tcp/ip to root@localhost,
>obviously with no from information.
>
>I guess my acl already accepts messages from 127.0.0.1, so the problem would
>be to handle "localhost" in a proper way?
It is a bad idea to try delivering e-mail to root. alias root to a
non-root mailbox. An exim compiled with the default compile-time
settings will refuse to deliver e-mail to root by virtue of the
FIXED_NEVER_USERS setting.
Greetings
Marc
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