> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > > > Never get mail as root. In fact never use root unless you really have > > > to, but that is a more general point. > > > > > Understood. But I thought this entry (root: rem) in my aliases file > > would take care of that. > > > > in root's crontab use fetch the mail and let procmail as root > sort those files into your users mailbox/maildir files? > > No wonder those files belong to root and your user cannot > open them. > > This line is for a different purpose! > > All of the daily status mails your box sends to root, will be > sent to your users spoolfile instead. > > As long as you do not spool those fetched email, no alias will > be used ever.
I'm missing something here. It's user's crontab that is used to invoke getmail, and retrieve the pop mail. So I'm still in the dark as to why "those files belong to root..." and my user can't retrieve them? Rem
