<div dir="ltr">Did exim put ALL this stuff into /etc/aliases??<br><br># /etc/aliases<br>mailer-daemon: postmaster<br>postmaster: root<br>nobody: root<br>hostmaster: root<br>usenet: root<br>news: root<br>webmaster: root<br>www: root<br>ftp: root<br>abuse: root<br>noc: root<br>security: root<br>root: root<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-23 1:38 GMT+02:00 Teo Tei <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teo8976@gmail.com" target="_blank">teo8976@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I see.<span class=""><br><br>> I agree that this is not pretty, but I don't have an idea about how to<br>> solve this dilemma.<br>> <br>> Workaround is to edit /etc/aliases with an editor.<br><br></span>What about this simple idea then:<br></div>- 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.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-22 8:40 GMT+02:00 Marc Haber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de" target="_blank">mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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thanks for your bug report.<br>
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The question about root/postmaster is only asked if /etc/aliases does<br>
not exist. I guess this is for historical reasons. /etc/aliases is not<br>
a conffile belonging to exim, so we can create it if it does not<br>
exist, but must not mess with it once it exists because it is not our<br>
conffile.<br>
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I agree that this is not pretty, but I don't have an idea about how to<br>
solve this dilemma.<br>
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Workaround is to edit /etc/aliases with an editor.<br>
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Greetings<br>
<span><font color="#888888">Marc<br>
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