Email server anomaly

[smakme7757]

At the moment everything is working 100% for all email addresses on the domain, apart from a single address.

webmaster<@mydomain.com>

I originally had my email hosted at Domains.live.com before i had the time to get my own email server setup. I had a single email there - webmaster@mydomain.com

I'm using Exim4, Courier-Imap-ssl and Roundcube on Debian Wheezy stable using Maildir.

Every single user on the system works fine, but webmaster does not. The email for webmaster ends up in the inbox of the first user I created on the system. Email arrives, just in the wrong account.

Any ideas on what exactly could be causing this strange little problem.

MX records are setup and working. As I said, I have a few other users whose email accounts work perfectly fine. It's just webmaster.


And i have no idea 😛


Thanks

 

[Red Squirrel]

A long shot, but could it be webmaster is some kind of default that was already setup, and that's overriding yours? I'm not really sure where to check though and I'm not familiar with exim, but look in it's config files to see if you see anything referring to that email that you never put.

Wonder if it may even be a system wide thing.

 

[smakme7757]

A long shot, but could it be webmaster is some kind of default that was already setup, and that's overriding yours? I'm not really sure where to check though and I'm not familiar with exim, but look in it's config files to see if you see anything referring to that email that you never put.

Wonder if it may even be a system wide thing.

It's definitely a possibility, I’ll check it out.

Thanks!

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm surprised that webmaster@ would be treated as special by a mail server, I would have thought postmaster@ would be a far more likely candidate to be given special treatment.

 

[Demo24]

No idea on exim, I use post fix and can get this resolved via aliases. Dunno if that would work on exim also.

 

[bobross419]

Like Demo24 mentioned... It sounds like aliases might be what you want, but I've got more experience with Postfix too.

 

[smakme7757]

I havn't been able to come up with a solution. As it stands it's not important, but it would have been nice to find out why 😀.

Maybe i should try postfix sometime, it seems like it's pretty popular.

 

[bobross419]

Are you sure it isn't an alias issue?

This is from a base install of the exim package on CentOS 6.3...

~]# grep /etc/aliases /etc/exim/exim.conf
# build-time configuration. The default path is the traditional /etc/aliases.
  data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}}
~]# grep webmaster /etc/aliases
www:		webmaster
webmaster:	root

You need to restart the MTA or run `newaliases` after modifying this file. You should just be able to comment out the "webmaster: root" (or whatever you might have) line and run newaliases.