Re: [exim] Exim4 and root aliases? Send a copy to root?

Hany Aziz via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> When setting up my raspberry pi to use local email (using exim4 as
> the default MTA on Raspbian/Debian), and while doing the debconf
> initial configuration, I was asked whether to forward root's email
> to my user account, and I did. In retrospect I wish I had also
> included root, as well as my user account (let's call it user1). In
> other words, any mail sent to root should in fact go to both root
> and user1.
[...]

Hello,

That will not work. Exim cannot deliver to root since it will not deliver
as root.[1]

cu Andreas

[1] You could rebuild exim, changing FIXED_NEVER_USERS to exclude
root.
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