On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:05:44 -0400, Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> How would you handle, in your solution, the case that it is desired to >> have mail for, say, uucp (UID 8) be delivered to the mail store of the >> user uucp? Aliasing it to itself in the system aliases file won't work >> here. > >Would this do the trick? > >uucp: /var/mail/uucp
That's a hack ;) >> Another argument for having our own alias file for low-uid users is >> that /etc/aliases may be used by different MTAs on Debian systems as >> well, and I'd like to keep its semantics as closely as possible to >> what one expects of an /etc/aliases file on a Unix system. > >How am I changing the semantics of /etc/aliases? Local parts that appear >in that file get redirected just like they always have, regardless of >whether or not they happen to be the names of system accounts on the >machine. Aliasing uucp to itself is not going to work as expected. >Anyway, like I said near the end of that bug report, the solution I >proposed works fine for me, and I'm not using the debian config file, so >don't worry about offending me by rejecting the suggestion for your >packaging. I appreciate your opinion anyway. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
