Bug#269806: marked as done (defaulting root mail to /var/mail/mail makes mail sent during the Debian base installation easy to miss)

Sat Jan 14 01:03:28 UTC 2006

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

I tried the sarge rc1 netinst iso yesterday.  Everything worked fine,
but the configuration of the hotplug package left mail from Debconf in
/var/mail/mail.  Since exim4-config does not set up an alias for user
"mail", it is unlikely to get seen by anyone.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:39:01 +0100
From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:46:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> AIUI this bug is not longer a problem since exim is no longer installed
> by debootstrap and so when it is installed (by tasksel as part of the
> installation of standard priority packages), it gets the proper values
> preseeded and/or asked interactively by debconf and is properly
> configured from the very beginning.

Very well. Closing the bug.

Greetings
Marc

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