On 8/30/07, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-08-29 Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: exim4 > > Version: 4.63-17 > > Severity: normal > > > Hi, > > > Exim4 created /var/www/Maildir, I don't think this is desirable. > > /var/www was created by Lighttpd. > [...] > > Hello, > There is not really a completely proper fix for that. This happened > because you received mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] www-data has > /var/www as homedirectory and the mail is not redirected somewhere > else in /etc/aliases. > > Exim could be configured to generally not deliver to system accounts > and indeed the Debian packages are prepared for that since 4.67-3. > Setting > FIRST_USER_ACCOUNT_UID = 1000 > would stop exim from accepting (an delivering) mail to any system > accounts from remote hosts unless they are redirected by /etc/aliases > (or a special router).[1] > > However discussion on debian-devel has revealed that there are some > scenarios that would break horribly and therefore was not made > default.
I haven't read the discussion, but what about denying mail for www-data by default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
