Hi All
Running exim4 on debian and trying to forward all emails destined for root@mydomain.com to me@mydomain.com, I did setup the entry in the /etc/alias file in the following way:

root: me@mydomain.com

run newaliases
restart exim "although not needed if I am not mistaken"

then on command line mail
root@mydomain.com
and the email still goes out for root@Mydomain.com and not me@mydomain.com
I am using a smarthost, and that smarthost refuses to serve emails going for root@. I am OK with that as I should be able to easily rewrite those message to go to me@mydomain.com

But it is simply not working, anything I might have missed here ?
Thanks

What happens when you don't use the full address "root@mydomain.com" and instead just send mail to "root" from the command line? My suspicion is that you have a DNS issue.

Hi Spankbot
you got it spot on, sending to root only works, any hints ?
Thanks

I dont know debian well, but you may just need to make sure your MTA knows what your local domain is...

What mail server are you running? postfix?

I've setup maybe a thousand servers in my time and when I want mail to be sent to root on the local host I just use "root". Root@yourdomain.com is really only meaningful from outside of your system.