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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:36:26PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.

Yes. That's one of the reasons why the feature is not enabled by
default.

I have added the following to README.Debian:
        Please note that enabling this feature will break delivery to
        postmaster and abuse at your site, which might be
        undesireable. Be prepared to alias these local parts to a real
        account in /etc/aliases.

What do you suggest doing additionally?

Greetings
Marc

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