Ok - thanks - doing an lsearch* stuffed me up in debian, since the alias
route is before the local mailbox route, so everything ended up in one
account.
I have done the following, after all my other routes.
default_mailbox:
debug_print = "R: redirect to default email account"
driver = redirect
domains = +local_domains
allow_fail
allow_defer
data = mail-default
Unfortunately, I have found that my only current user has a forward file
that ends in a "save /home/user/Maildir". Otherwise, it local delivery
sits on the spool and doesn't get picked up...
If someone's got a quick fix, that'd be great, but I think I might be
able to find it within 10 mins anyhow...
Cheers
Stephen
John Robinson wrote:
> On 19/09/2006 13:07, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>
>> Stephen Kestle wrote:
>>
>>> I just can't seem to find some documents on a default account or
>>> redirect for my server. It seems to reject any non-local address, and
>>> that also seems to eliminate any alias redirection (I tried
>>> "*:mail-default").
>>>
>>> It's something pretty simple, but I just can't find the right stuff...
>>>
>>> Perhaps I need to add a router to handle all unknown addreses - can
>>> someone point me in the right direction?
>>>
>> My advice on catchall accounts is "don't do that".
>> You get inundated with spam as soon as a dictionary-attack
>> hits your domain, and you get joe-jobbed to death too.
>>
>
> I'd agree. If you want to have support for effectively making up email
> addresses on the hoof, as I do, enable local_part_suffix support (and
> probably local_part_suffix_optional too). It means I can make up email
> addresses like
> john.robinson-exim.org.spam.me.and.get.killfiled@??? and in
> my personal Exim filter I can if necessary choose to discard messages
> sent to that address (if it ends up getting spammed) while continuing to
> accept email for my main address. See
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch15.html#id2606562
>
> If you still want a catch-all, you could change your aliases lookup to
> one with a default value, e.g. lsearch*{/etc/aliases} instead of
> lsearch{/etc/aliases} which will let you put * on the left and the
> target address on the right. See
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch09.html#SECTdefaultvaluelookups
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
>
>
