[4911] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Qmail 0.92
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Mitchell)
Mon Nov 18 02:11:04 1996
Date: 18 Nov 1996 07:11:24 -0000
From: John Mitchell <johnm@non.net>
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>>>>> "Toni" == Toni Nikkanen <tonikk@utu.fi> writes:
[...qmail...]
> I have it running nicely now, except that mails to root won't appear
> anywhere - in maillog it says delivery ok, but nothing appears in
> /root/Mailbox. Mailing to users with different agents (pine, elm, mailx)
> from inside and outside works great but I couldn't figure out why mail to
> root wouldn't work. Oh well, I'll go to bed and see if I can figure it
> out after i wake up :)
You need to read the documentation for qmail. For security "root" *NEVER*
gets mail. It is all directed at the "alias" user. By default that is in
/var/qmail/alias.
If you have a default qmail setup, set MAIL to /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox for
your root user, if you like.
Go wild,
John
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