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Re: Qmail 0.92
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Burrell)
Mon Nov 18 03:31:28 1996
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:28:46 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.961118071045.13964B-100000@antares.utu.fi> from "Toni Nikkanen" at Nov 18, 96 07:12:12 am
From: Ian Burrell <iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU
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>
> 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 :)
>
Read the documentation. Specifically the dot-qmail man page and
INSTALL.* files.
For security reasons, qmail doesn't deliver mail as root but as the
receiving user. All non-user mail (including root) is handled by the
alias user. Qmail uses .qmail-ext files to control mail to user-ext,
so the files in /var/qmail/alias determine what non-user accounts
receive mail. The root account is included there by default and its
mail should be going to /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox.
I just set the MAIL variable in /root/.bash_profile:
export MAIL="/var/qmail/alias/Mailbox"
- Ian
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