Bug#766293: exim4: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config: question about root/postmaster user not asked any more

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

thanks for your bug report.

The question about root/postmaster is only asked if /etc/aliases does
not exist. I guess this is for historical reasons. /etc/aliases is not
a conffile belonging to exim, so we can create it if it does not
exist, but must not mess with it once it exists because it is not our
conffile.

I agree that this is not pretty, but I don't have an idea about how to
solve this dilemma.

Workaround is to edit /etc/aliases with an editor.

Greetings
Marc

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