Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:43:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:15PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I get horribly uncomfortable reading exim documentation, but you have found exactly the bit I needed. Thank you *so* much. Ain't

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-20 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:15PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I get horribly uncomfortable reading exim documentation, but you have found exactly the bit I needed. Thank you *so* much. Ain't that the truth. I would have thought after so long with Linux, I'd be hardened to all the

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:20:15PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I get horribly uncomfortable reading exim documentation, but you have found exactly the bit I needed. Thank you *so* much. Ain't that the truth. I would have thought after so long with Linux, I'd be

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:20:23PM -0600, David wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:29:02PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Yeah, that's on my to do list ... sort of. exim 3 is working, and I'm a bit scared of screwing everything up when I move to exim 4. Although I can't make any

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-19 Thread David
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:47:10AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: Although I can't make any guarantees, it _should_ be safe to migrate to exim4. You can install exim4 and keep exim - at least you can in testing. Exim4 has its own config directory (exim4) in /etc, and its own log directory

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040219 04:25]: [...] I had thought about purging the old exim to clean up my system, but am afraid that there _might_ be some overlap and I might remove something that exim4 needs. Oh, well.. it's just a few files anway... No, exim4 shouldn't be using anything

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Mike Fedyk penned: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:49:12PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned: Try adding the following to exim.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses} {$value}fail} In which section would this go?

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-18 Thread Chris
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:38, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-18, Mike Fedyk penned: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:49:12PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned: Try adding the following to exim.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040218 10:15]: On 2004-02-18, Mike Fedyk penned: Search for /etc/aliases in your exim.conf, and s/lsearch/lsearch*/ to put a literal * after lsearch. Then put *: destination username at the end of /etc/aliases and your concerns will be taken into

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Chris penned: I found this (below) here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-mta quote 9.6.1.3 A catchall for nonexistent email addresses (Exim) In /etc/exim/exim.conf (Woody or later), in the DIRECTORS part, at the end (after the localuser:

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Vineet Kumar penned: When I do this, all mail to any user on the system gets sent to that account, not just mail to non-existent users. Eek! This is because the system_aliases director comes before localuser. Directors are searched in order. If you only want a particular

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-18 Thread David
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:29:02PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Yeah, that's on my to do list ... sort of. exim 3 is working, and I'm a bit scared of screwing everything up when I move to exim 4. Although I can't make any guarantees, it _should_ be safe to migrate to exim4. You can

default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so, how, or where is it documented? In other words, if someone emails a non-existent user on the system, I want that mail to go to a

[Fwd: Re: default destination in exim?]

2004-02-17 Thread Ken Gilmour
Sorry, forgot to reply to list rather than reply to sender ---BeginMessage--- On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 17:37, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so,

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-17, Monique Y. Herman penned: Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so, how, or where is it documented? In other words, if someone emails a non-existent user on

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:26, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-17, Monique Y. Herman penned: Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so, how, or where is it documented?

Re: [Fwd: Re: default destination in exim?]

2004-02-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned: On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 17:37, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so, how, or where is it documented? In other

Re: [Fwd: Re: default destination in exim?]

2004-02-17 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:56, Monique Y. Herman wrote: snip Depends on your mail client I don't understand why my mail client would have anything to do with this ... Sorry i meant Mail server. snip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:37:36AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so, how, or where is it

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-17, Paul Johnson penned: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:37:36AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Is it possible to configure the /etc/aliases file such that any alias that is not explicitly correlated to a local user is sent to some user by default? If so, how, or where is it

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned: Try adding the following to exim.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses} {$value}fail} In which section would this go? You will also need to put * into /etc/email-addresses Um, something here is making me nervous. Would I have

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:49:12PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned: Try adding the following to exim.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses} {$value}fail} In which section would this go? You will also need to put * into