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Re: spam to aliases and system accounts



On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:43:33AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> You would have to sound out and convince the exim4 maintainers. I can
> well imagine their enthusiasm for a change might be muted.

I've reported this before, IIRC, and was ignored. There's also a potential
DoS situation because the default configuration will accept and store mail
for some aliases in /var/mail/<name>, which might be / and could fill up
without the admin noticing, especially if legitimate users have mail moved
elsewhere (e.g. ~/Maildir)

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