I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for nobody.
moder8@telecom:~$ ls -lh /var/mail
total 4.0K
-rw-rw 1 moder8 telecom0 Jul 26 19:10 moder8
-rw-rw 1 root root1.5K Jul 10 06:16 nobody
moder8@telecom:~$ sudo less /var/mail/nobody
moder8@telecom:~$ sudo emacs
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for nobody.
The question is, what do you expect to happen when mail is sent to
nobody? Or is it that you didn't expect mail to be sent to nobody?
There are at least a couple of ways
Bill Horne wrote:
I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for nobody.
Which is probably not a good thing. ;-)
You probably want to alias nobody to root or your designated admin user,
if it is not already, so you can catch error messages that might end up
there.
I'm assuming your
