[TriLUG] Exim troubles

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

>How can I set a virtual host to accept *@domain.com and forward it to
>user at somedomain.com in a .forward file.  I've tried to google this, but I
>don't even know what to search string to put in...
>
>Any help greatly appreciated!
>
>Steve
>  
>
I don't claim to know anything about Exim, but generally speaking...   
You can't direct all mail for a domain, from a .forward file.  A 
.forward file controls mail that is being delivered to a particular 
user, so for example in johndoe's home directory, where is forward file 
is located, you can only put rules that affect mail already being 
delivered for johndoe at domain.com.  The reason for the limitation is that 
the .forward file is being processed by the local delivery agent (ala 
procmail, usually).

You'll need to investigate how to do something along the description of 
"virtusertable" or "default destination", I believe I found your answer 
on the second of those two tries, via google.  Here's a link, check out 
example number 3:
http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/exim_0701.html

Aaron S. Joyner