system aliases

[joh2900]

how can i forward mail from root to another email? I have adding the alias to /etc/aliases, have dns set up for name.doman.com
have mx record for name.domain.com, but mail will not forward.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

You might need to swap the order of "system_aliases" and "localuser" in your /etc/exim.conf to look like:

system_aliases:
  driver = redirect
  allow_defer
  allow_fail
  data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}}
  file_transport = address_file
  pipe_transport = address_pipe
  retry_use_local_part
  # user = exim

localuser:
  driver = accept
  check_local_user
  condition = "${if eq {$domain} {$primary_hostname} {yes} {no}}"
  transport = local_delivery

Just make sure system_aliases comes first.

John