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

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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim4 and root aliases? Send a copy to root?
On 2019-03-10, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
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> Hany Aziz via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (So 10 M=C3=A4r 2019 08:59:0=
> 5 CET):
>> Changing the alias in /etc/aliases to
>>
>>     root: user1, root

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> In theory this would work, in practice it won't with Exim. Exim has a
> build time "FIXED_NEVER_USERS" list, which in most environments contains
> "root" and thus it can't be overridden.


root: user1, /var/spool/mail/root

The root spool will be owned by exim, but root will be able to read it
anyway! Could be a privacy risk I guess.

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