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whit
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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject: exim and aliases file |
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Been using a stock Gentoo exim for outgoing mail from a system for awhile. Now trying to set it up to handle incoming temporarily, but a test message to the system fails with the following in the mail.log:
Apr 27 12:03:51 free exim[16698]: 2003-04-27 12:03:51 199od5-0004LJ-00 == whit@obscuredomain.com R=system_aliases defer (-1): failed to expand "${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE}}": failed to open SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE for linear search: No such file or directory
This confuses me since /etc/aliases does exist (as well as /etc/exim/aliases and /etc/mail/aliases - just to be sure). What is Gentoo's exim defaulting to for SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE - a compile-time option, and I could look there of course, but have a lot else to do on deadline, so thought I'd ask 
Further note: Hardcoding it in exim.conf to:
| Code: | | data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}} |
does work (along with setting access to /var/spool/mail so exim can get in) ... but it's not the "right" way, is it? |
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gkmac
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Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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Location: West Sussex, UK
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: exim and aliases file |
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| whit wrote: | Hardcoding it in exim.conf to:
| Code: | | data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}} |
does work |
The code above is what's in my exim.conf, but I cannot remember whether I put that in myself or whether it was part of the default exim.conf file.
| whit wrote: | | but it's not the "right" way, is it? |
I don't see why that is "wrong". That's been my aliases setup for several months with no side effects. /etc/aliases isn't going to move, so if that works you might as well leave it like that. |
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vgd
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Joined: 12 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject: exim aliases fixed in new ebuild |
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SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE is actually supposed to be replaced with a path
The install script that comes with Exim src does this.
I have submitted an updated ebuild that sets it to /etc/mail/aliases
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grobian
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Joined: 31 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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The ebuild simply took the wrong config file to install as exim.conf.dist, this is fixed now, thanks!
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