tag 806986 + wontfix thanks On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 20:13 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2015-12-03 Sam Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: exim4 > > Version: 4.84-8 > > Severity: normal > > > I noticed that mail sent by needrestart(1) addressed to Debian-exim > > was > > bouncing. > > > # exim -d -bt Debian-gdm > [...] > > I guess this is because exim ends up calling getpwnam(3) with the > > lower-cased local_part rather than the original, mixed-case form. > [...] > > Hello, > > yes, that is the case. > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-message_p > rocessing.html#SECID230 > > Given the choice between ... > > a) deliverable Debian-gdm > b) deliverable [email protected] > > ... my vote goes to b), marking this bug report as wontfix. > > The Debian-* users are system users and should generaly not be > accessible by mail under their own id, except with a explicit entry > in > /etc/aliases. > > cu Andreas
Makes sense to me, thanks for explaining! Regards, -- Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/> CAAA AA1A CA69 A83A 892B 1855 D20B 4202 5CDA 27B9
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