[Pkg-exim4-users] Regression in testing? Local mail passed to smarthost, ignoring aliases

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2021-04-08 Michael Below <below at judiz.de> wrote:
> I have tried to configure Exim on two similar systems: Both are
> "satellites" without local mail delivery, mainly I want the mail sent
> to root to be forwarded to an external address. Initially, I stumbled
> onto the issue that mail to just "root" would be sent to to the
> smarthost, which did not know "root@<myexternaldomain>". I was able to
> solve this for one system running Debian stable, but not for the other
> system running Debian testing, while following exactly the same steps.
> I would like to understand what I need to do differently on testing.
[...]
> Why does exim4 on stable use the alias, and exim4 on testing ignores
> the alias?

Hello,

do you end up with the same /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf? Can you
post it?

cu Andreas
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