On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:48:06AM -0400, Marc Sherman wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > >To me, this looks like an issue which could be solved in a dedicated > >router which will fail e-mail addressed to system users. However, > >there might be packages that need their user to be able to receive mail. > > It seems to me that 300_exim4-config_real_local should be moved to 550 > (or perhaps move the contents directly into > 600_exim4-config_userforward, at the start of the file). The real-* > addresses only exist to serve the syntax-errors-to setting in the > userforward router, so that seems like the right thing to do to me.
Actually, the original idea of real-, which was introduced by the exim maintainers long before I joined Debian, was to have a possibility to bypass _all_ special routing techniques, which makes real- need to be first in the router chain. I am not sure whether having real- is still a good idea, whether it should stay around, whether it should be mor restricted. > It means that real-* won't work for addresses aliased in the system > aliases file, but IMO that's a _good_ thing. I bet there are some installations out there that rely on this behavior. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]