[Discuss] I'm getting mail for "nobody"

[Bill Horne]

I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for "nobody".

moder8 at telecom:~$ ls -lh /var/mail
total 4.0K
-rw-rw---- 1 moder8 telecom    0 Jul 26 19:10 moder8
-rw-rw---- 1 root   root    1.5K Jul 10 06:16 nobody
moder8 at telecom:~$ sudo less /var/mail/nobody
moder8 at telecom:~$ sudo emacs /etc/aliases
moder8 at telecom:~$ egrep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin

Which is probably not a good thing. ;-)

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has Postfix by default, and I've never worked on it.

All suggestions welcome.

Bill

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