Bug#596193: exim4-config: /etc/aliases ignored in 'mail sent by smarthost; no local mail' and possibly 'mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail'

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:02:12PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> The contents on /etc/aliases seems to be completely ignored for me
> with the current setup ( 'mail sent by smarthost; no local mail' and
> possibly 'mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail') - I
> want any mail sent to "root" (eg, the results of root cron jobs),
> postmaster, etc to be forwarded to my account twc or twc at
> aaocbn.aao.gov.au.

This is not a bug, since /etc/aliases is processed when a message
comes in. With the smarthost settings, there are no incoming messages,
exim just sends out _everything_ to the smarthost.

Greetings
Marc

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