I suggest you should try asking on the debian exim4 mailing list -
debian use a customised configuration for exim which makes it
difficult for those of us not in a debian environment to understand
the interactions within that environment:-
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users
On 29 Mar 2009, at 05:17, Jacob Rau wrote:
[snip...]
> I learned from many sources that I could edit /etc/aliases. And I did.
>
> #
> # Mail aliases for sendmail
> #
>
> # You must run newaliases(1) after making changes to this file.
> #
That clearly says sendmail (which is not the standard debian mail
package so that comment looks suspicious to me...). newaliases is
also normally a sendmail specific thing (although it can just be a db
building wrapper script). So I start to suspect the config file you
are looking at is not part of the exim config.
Nigel.
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