Andreas Metzler <eximusers@???> writes:
> lee <lee@???> wrote:
>> how is usually dealt with incoming messages that are addressed to
>> <mail@???>?
>
>> Debian has a system account named 'mail', and incoming messages cannot
>> be delivered to this user (when using maildir) because it has no home
>> directory. Also, I don't want to receive any mail for this account.
> [...]
>> What's common good behaviour here?
>
> file:///usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html#idp48876876
> "Handling incoming mail for local accounts with low UID"
Thank you, that's the perfect answer :)
I'm not using the automatic configuration, so I'll have to figure out
how it's implemented. They are kinda doing what I thought of anyway :)
As to, by default, leaking the user ID, shouldn't that be fixed in exim?
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