Bug#496029: exim4-config: Should use www-data user instead of www when generates /etc/aliases

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Wed Dec 26 10:34:46 UTC 2012


On 2010-09-10 Olivier Berger <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:32:13AM +0300, Vitalie Lazu wrote:
> > Here is a little patch to forward www-data mail to root by default


> I guess this is particularly important for cases when packages add
> cron jobs as www-data (which may be bad habbit ?).

> Maybe an alternative is to have both www and www-data ?

> In any case, it would be great to have maintainer's feedback on this.
[...]

"www" is listed in aliases because it is a role-address (rfc2142),
this is not a typo.

cu andreas



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