On 2025-02-08 Daniel Gröber <d...@darkboxed.org> wrote: > Package: exim4-config > Version: 4.96-15+deb12u6 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@darkboxed.org
> Hi Andreas, > exim4-config's accepts mail for system users such as 'daemon' when > local delivery is enabled. I find this unexpected and undesirable: > who's ever going to read these? They just land in /var/mail and aren't > forwarded to root like postmaster et al. > I reproduced this on a fresh bookworm system with > dc_eximconfig_configtype=smarthost, but on my real mailserver I > deliver using dovecot lmtp (a common setup AFAIK), which (temp)rejects > system users due to dovecot's first_valid_uid=1000 default. This > causes (exclusively spam) for system users get stuck in the mailq > which is ugly. > Is this intentional? Do you think it's still useful? [...] Hello Daniel, It has come up before: file:///usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html 2.7. Handling incoming mail for local accounts with low UID cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
