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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] keeping postmaster reachable even with misconfigured mail system
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Marc Haber wrote:

> >Almost. You haven't specified a user for the delivery to run under.
>
> I suppose that user mail.mail is not the correct idea to do so, right?


I can't answer that. It depends on your system and what you want to
happen. All Exim cares is that it knows which uid to run the delivery
as.

> This would cause postmaster to fail if the alias file is unavailable
> or broken.


Well, if you are very worried about this, set up a separate aliasfile
director with a file just containing a single alias. Put the file on the
safest disc you have. You have to rely on *something* being available...

> Can I prevent the system filter from being executed for mails
> addressed to postmaster?


if $local_part is postmaster then finish endif

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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