Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> writes: > lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> how is usually dealt with incoming messages that are addressed to >> <[email protected]>? > >> Debian has a system account named 'mail', and incoming messages cannot >> be delivered to this user (when using maildir) because it has no home >> directory. Also, I don't want to receive any mail for this account. > [...] >> What's common good behaviour here? > > file:///usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html#idp48876876 > "Handling incoming mail for local accounts with low UID"
Thank you, that's the perfect answer :) I'm not using the automatic configuration, so I'll have to figure out how it's implemented. They are kinda doing what I thought of anyway :) As to, by default, leaking the user ID, shouldn't that be fixed in exim? -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
