Bug#440217: exim4-config: lowuid router is misplaced in order and breaks common setups

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2007-09-03 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:23:27PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...] 
> > After enabling the lowuid router with
> > FIRST_USER_ACCOUNT_UID = 1000
> > abuse is undeliverable from remote addresses:

> I won't call this a feature, but a "side effect". Solution: alias root
> to itself (or directly to ametzler) in /etc/exim4/lowuid-aliases.

Hello,

*Imho* it is a severe bug since blacklisting abuse will put a server
on blacklists quickly. If lowuid was enabled by default this would be
rc.

cu and- I think postmaster will not be rejected but bounced, not that
this is better. -reas
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