I have setuped an Exim4 server on my
debian wheezy server. This mail server only sends mail coming from localhost. The purpose is sending mail for my website.
I have cron tasks and other services generating mails for root user.
These mails are not stored in /var/mail as before, but sent by exim to
[email protected].
I try to make exim send mails for root to
[email protected] rather than
[email protected].
I tried adding a .forward in /root with
[email protected] as content. I tried also changing /etc/aliases with root:
[email protected]. The fact is that routing works for root@localhost but not for root which is resolved as
[email protected]
I tested how routing is resolved with exim -bt :
root@srv02:~# exim -bt root@localhost
R: system_aliases for root@localhost
R: dnslookup for
[email protected]
[email protected]
<-- root@localhost
router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [173.194.67.27] MX=5
host alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.143.27] MX=10
host alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.25.27] MX=20
host alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [173.194.64.27] MX=30
host alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.142.27] MX=40
root@srv02:~# exim -bt root
R: dnslookup for
[email protected]
[email protected]
router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
host aspmx.l.google.com [173.194.78.27] MX=1
host alt1.aspmx.l.google.com [74.125.143.27] MX=5
host alt2.aspmx.l.google.com [74.125.25.27] MX=5
host alt4.aspmx.l.google.com [74.125.142.27] MX=10
host alt3.aspmx.l.google.com [173.194.64.27] MX=10
I bet this is a matter of how my server is configured (rather than how exim is configured). But to understand well I would like to have a solution for both :
how to have root resolved as root@localhost ?
how to have
[email protected] routed to
[email protected] ?
