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In case you are working with Debian Wheezy and exim4 and want to create a mailbox, that gets all emails to unknown addresses, the following has to be done:

1. edit /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and look for router/400_exim4-config_system_aliases
2. change line data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}} to
   data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch*{/etc/aliases}}
3. add all valid users to /etc/aliases (like heinz: heinz)
4. call update-exim4.conf
5. restart exim4 /etc/init.d/exim4 restart

Disadvantage:

• You need to insert all local users to /etc/aliases, but this could be managed during user creation
• This does not work in case you set dc_use_split_config to ‘true’