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Re: How to not-send email to a system user



Am Mon, 2002-12-02 um 23.11 schrieb Sergio Mendoza:
> Hi,
> 
>   As stated in the debian policy manual, I defined a system user with:
> 
>  adduser --quiet --system --group mynewuser
> 
> The problem is that this user (although defined in the 100's uid) still
> gets email when emailed.  This is something I do not want, since this user
> should not be allowed to receive any email at all.
> 
>   Is there something I am missing here?
> 

You could edit /etc/aliases and/or make /var/mail/$USER read-only.

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