Bug#307768: exim4: check_local_user should reject system users?

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:57:10AM -0400, Marc Sherman wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> >For post-sarge, I am open to arguments, but am not yet convinced.
> 
> Ok, that's fine.  But if you agreed with my goal, what do you think of 
> my execution?

Actually, I am using something very similiar for my local server
e-mail configuration which has a _very_ reduced feature set and
forwards mail to system accounts to a central place while keeping the
option of sorting the message by forwarding host and/or recipient.

But the real-* business has been in the exim packages for a _very_
long time (this is even part of exim3 on woody) and probably nobody
knows any more why we include this. Does upstream recommend this in
its default config, or is this a Debianism?

If it's a Debianism, then we should probably think about doing the
change that you propose. May I ask you to present your case on
pkg-exim4-users or pkg-exim4-devel to get a broader opinion?

Greetings
Marc

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