On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:05:44 -0400, Marc Sherman
<msherman@???> wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>> How would you handle, in your solution, the case that it is desired to
>> have mail for, say, uucp (UID 8) be delivered to the mail store of the
>> user uucp? Aliasing it to itself in the system aliases file won't work
>> here.
>
>Would this do the trick?
>
>uucp: /var/mail/uucp
That's a hack ;)
>> Another argument for having our own alias file for low-uid users is
>> that /etc/aliases may be used by different MTAs on Debian systems as
>> well, and I'd like to keep its semantics as closely as possible to
>> what one expects of an /etc/aliases file on a Unix system.
>
>How am I changing the semantics of /etc/aliases? Local parts that appear
>in that file get redirected just like they always have, regardless of
>whether or not they happen to be the names of system accounts on the
>machine.
Aliasing uucp to itself is not going to work as expected.
>Anyway, like I said near the end of that bug report, the solution I
>proposed works fine for me, and I'm not using the debian config file, so
>don't worry about offending me by rejecting the suggestion for your
>packaging.
I appreciate your opinion anyway.
Greetings
Marc
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