Bug#281036: exim4-config: Send all mailsdirekted to unknown users to a specified mail account

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 281036-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:01:45 +0100


On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:52:29PM +0100, Dr. Tilo Levante wrote:
> If this is possible, it would help me alot! how can I define it?
> I use cyrus for delivery and the cyrus router is behind the
> alias router. How can the alias router know, which addresses are
> not available on the system?
> In the cyrus route I test, wether there is a mailbox in cyrus with
> the condition:
> ~   condition = ${if eq{${substr{0}{7}{${run{/usr/sbin/mbpath
> ~         user.${local_part}}}}}}{Invalid}{No}{Yes}}
> Maybe there is a better way to do this?

What you intend to do is well beyond the scope of exim4's debconf
setup. You're free to manually configure your exim to whatever you
want. The exim docs and the docs available with the Debian package
will help you understand.

I do not quite see what the exim4 packaging can do for you here.

Greetings
Marc

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