Re: System users that receive mail in /var/mail/systemuser?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> wrote:
> > Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> system users like proxy, sshd or identd usually do not receive any
> >> mail at all. And system-users that _do_ receive mail are usually
> >> redirected to a real user by /etc/aliases.
> 
> >> I do wonder whether it would be safe to reject any mail for
> >> system-accounts (uid <1000 || uid >63434) unless it is redirected with
> >> /etc/aliases?
> >>             cu andreas
> 
> > Or just redirect all such mail to root, that way you don't have to keep 
> > /etc/aliases up to date for every package installed that creates a user.
> 
> Hello,
> looks like I was unclear. I wanted to change current semi-policy:
> 
> #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases
> #2 insane packages park it in /var/mail/systemuser, where nobody will
>    see it
> #3 insane packages probably do not exist, /var/mail/systemuser
>    probably just contains spam
> 
> to
> #1 sane packages redirect mail via /etc/aliases
> #2 un-aliased mail to systemusers (e.g. spam) is not accepted and
> dumped into /var/mail/systemuser but rejected immediately (at SMTP
> time).
> 
> And now I am wondering whether this will break existing packages.

Maybe not *packages*, but possibly non-Debian software.

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