Bug#278375: mail from all notes even after debootstrap goes to /var/mail/mail?

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Marc Haber (mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de):
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:08:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > It really seems to me a shame that exim ships with a default mail
> > configuration that is so unusable.
> 
> Please state how a unconfigured MTA should behave.

Probably quite difficult..:-)

One could maybe imagine that the exim4 maintainer scripts "reassign"
the existing mailbox /var/mail/mail to the user configured as
root's mail recipient when this user is defined....

Or maybe asking whether such action should be done (Boolean template:
"Some mails previously sent to the root user have been found. Please
choose whether you want to redirect these mails to the user you
defined as root mail recipient"....defaulting to false)

Probably something quite dangerous and maybe even not
policy-compliant....but I think you get the point...