[CLUE-Tech] exim and /etc/aliases

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Apr 5 20:04:20 MDT 2004


Jim Ockers wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately this won't work from /etc/aliases.  You need to use the
> virtuser function.  Here is what to do to make it work on a Red Hat 7.x
> system - YMMV on other systems.
> 
> 1. Delete the above *@denver... entry from /etc/aliases.  Rebuild the
> aliases file by running newaliases .

Umm...  This is an exim question.  Exim doesn't use newaliases.  And Red 
Hat uses sendmail by default -- does any of this work with exim?

[...]
> 5. Restart sendmail.  /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

Thought so.  But the advice about avoiding dictionary spam is good.

Dave




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