Re: [exim] Forward local aliases to external addresses

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Lähettäjä: Christian Schmidt
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Aihe: Re: [exim] Forward local aliases to external addresses
Hello Matthew,

Matthew Daubenspeck, 25.03.2008 (d.m.y):

> I am running exim-4.69 on a colo with a fair amount of domains using
> lsearch and flat text files for local email. Each person has a local
> account and they are organized by domain user@???, with user being a
> local system user. However, I have had a few customers request the
> ability to have a local alias (say sms@???) forward to a non local
> domain (12345678@???). I know I can do this by creating local
> system users and a .forward file, but that seems overkill for something
> that always forwards to an external email address. I had this working
> years ago in the early 3.x days, but never managed to get it working
> again when I upgraded to 4.x oh so long ago. I've tried several routers
> and I just don't seem to be able to get it working.
>
> Does anything have anything similar? My current text files are setup
> like:
>
> useralias:    localuser

>
> For each domain. It used to work with:
>
> userforward:    external@???

>
> Any suggestions?


Maybe you even don't need local accounts for these users as an entry
in your aliases file is sufficient for that purpose.

Gruss/Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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