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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:33:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

> The way that this is supposed to be solved in the packages is to alias
> them away to root.

Not sure I follow your "alias them away to root" - yes, they are 
currently aliases to root in general; so root gets all that spam,
which is the problem I am trying to solve.

> We are somewhat reluctant to "fix" this as this
> means deviating "far" from what an experienced Unix admin might expect.

Even as a configurable option defaulting to off? I wasn't suggesting
that this should be the default behaviour; clearly some sites will be
relying on the existing remote deliverability of those addresses.

Cheers,

Dominic.

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