Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Re: Andreas Metzler 2006-04-09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases
>> #2 un-aliased mail to systemusers (e.g. spam) is not accepted and
>> dumped into /var/mail/systemuser but rejected immediately (at SMTP
>> time).
> I'm not aware of any package inserting its system users into
> /etc/aliases, and in fact, my sid chroot doesn't even have that file.
They shouldn't, unless they want to receive mail for the system-user
account.
> So unless I'm wrong here, a general mechanism to redirect/reject mail
> to such users should be invented. Maybe adduser could do that?
Policy 11.6. "/etc/aliases is the source file for the system mail
aliases (e.g., postmaster, usenet, etc.), it is the one which the
sysadmin and postinst scripts may edit."
And indeed e.g. clamav or inn2 will add itself to it (if it exists.)
cu andreas
/etc/aliases.
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