At 10:40 AM 8/18/2006, John Burnham said: >> /etc/alias -- postmater & abuse are piped to root.. but I get >> neither.. >> >> # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present. >> mailer-daemon: postmaster >> postmaster: root >> [snip] >> abuse: root >> >By default exim won't deliver to the root user, try putting >root: someotheruser >in /etc/aliases > >By the way, you can test how addresses will be delivered by using >exim -d -bt address >(the -d is optional and turns on extra debug information). >For more information have a look through the Exim spec, paying particular >attention to never_users.
I read the never_users section of the docs and see in exim.conf: # No local deliveries will ever be run under the uids of these users (a colon- # separated list). An attempt to do so gets changed so that it runs under the # uid of "nobody" instead. This is a paranoic safety catch. Note the default # setting means you cannot deliver mail addressed to root as if it were a # normal user. This isn't usually a problem, as most sites have an alias for # root that redirects such mail to a human administrator. never_users = root So am I correct in thinking here it says never send mail TO root?? or never send AS root??? I ran the debug mode and indeed it can not locate abuse@ I checked /etc/alias and see: Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present. mailer-daemon: postmaster postmaster: root abuse: root then further down in the file I see: # Person who should get root's mail #root: marc (now I KNOW thats not right !!) Cpanel setting is set to send root's mail to the off server address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i just reset that now again for good measure) So.. with that all said I belive all I need to do here is uncomment and alter that line in the alias file # Person who should get root's mail #root: wkdwich ## valid user on server - me then I KNOW in my heart I have to rebuild the alias file, but newaliasses does not exist on the server -- so how do I rebuild?? or do I just make the change and restart exim ?? maybe with the -bi switch ?? running exim 4.52 and those docs state: If Exim is called under the name newaliases it behaves as if the option -bi were present before any other options, for compatibility with Sendmail. This option is used for rebuilding Sendmail's alias file. Exim does not have the concept of a single alias file, but can be configured to run a given command if called with the -bi option. Grr I am thinking the easiest way to do this is just change the postmaster@ and abuse@ in the alias file to direct to a valid user or full email address, but I still am not sure how to rebuild the alias file Regards, Debbie ^v^ ^o^ //\o/\\ ^o^ ^v^ Webmaster - System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AOL, CS or AIM NailGdsss - MSN Nailgodess) WWWeb Services, Ronkonkoma, NY 631-981-1273 fax 631-981-7557 http://www.beautytech.com & http://www.beautytech.INFO for Professionals for Consumers Online Correspondent NAILS Magazine http://www.nailsmag.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
