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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