Hany Aziz via Exim-users <[email protected]> (So 10 Mär 2019 08:59:05 CET): > Changing the alias in /etc/aliases to > > root: user1, root
In theory this would work, in practice it won't with Exim. Exim has a
build time "FIXED_NEVER_USERS" list, which in most environments contains
"root" and thus it can't be overridden.
The "never_users" option appends its value to this list. Check the
output of `exim -bV` for "Fixed never_users:". For delivery Exim
won't change its UID to one of these UIDs.
> I did also retest after sending out the commands (as root):
> sudo newaliases
> sudo service exim4 restart
These commands are normally not necessary with the common Exim
installations, as as Exim reads the /etc/aliases as a text file each
time it does a delivery attempt. So there is no need to rebuild the
aliases and no need to restart/reload Exim.
> But, this still has no effect. "user1" still gets the email, root does not
> get a copy.
You'll have bounces instead :) And the log file should tell you about
the failed attempts.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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