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

[Teo Tei]

Did exim put ALL this stuff into /etc/aliases??

# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root
root: root


2014-10-23 1:38 GMT+02:00 Teo Tei <teo8976 at gmail.com>:

> I see.
>
> > 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.
>
> What about this simple idea then:
> - at the time when the check is done, if the file exists, instead of
> silently skipping the question, show a notice saying that /etc/aliases
> already exists and suggest how to edit it in order to change
> postmaster/root settings.
>
> 2014-10-22 8:40 GMT+02:00 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>:
>
>> 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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