Bug#400790: exim4-config: Reject mail to system users from non-local sources

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:10:03PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Recently I'm seeing spams to various system alias addresses such as
> mail, uucp etc. Usually there is no valid reason for these addresses to
> be deliverable from remote sources, so an option to simply reject these
> from non-local sources which seem valuable. They could still be
> deliverable from local submission so that cronmail etc would be
> unaffected.
> 
> Does this sound like a good idea?

The way that this is supposed to be solved in the packages is to alias
them away to root. We are somewhat reluctant to "fix" this as this
means deviating "far" from what an experienced Unix admin might expect.

>  I'm happy to implement it in a package-suitable way if there is
>  interest (otherwise I'll just hack it together for myself :)

I'll re-think handling of mails for low-UID users post-etch.

Greetings
Marc

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