mail from all notes even after debootstrap goes to /var/mail/mail?

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:48:17AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Of course it's not strictly speaking uncofigured in the dpkg sense, this
> is its default configuration. I think that in its default configuration,
> mails to root should go somewhere sensible and not be hidden away in a
> /var/mail/mail that nobody checks.

EXPN "somewhere sensible". It is completely insane to deliver e-mail
to a mailbox belonging to root since root privileges would be
necessary to do so, so some choice where to deliver e-mail must be made.

Given these circumstances, the target should probably either be the
account exim runs under (Debian-exim), or the system mail account. If
you disagree, give another possibility.

Greetings
Marc

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