[GLLUG] Default alias for unknown users?

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:17:11PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    I have several aliases set up in /etc/aliases, but is it possible to
> create a default alias for otherwise unknown user names to a defined
> destination? Putting
> 
> *: destination
> 
> at the end of the file does not appear to work. 

What MTA are you running ?

What you have given should work with exim.

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