On Saturday 19 February 2011 12:33 Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 12:21 +0100, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > > But exim seems to be broken no mail delivery to root.
IMHO is root not the right one to get system mails. There should be an local admin-user who acts as the postmaster with lower rights. So there should end up all system mails at that account. The /etc/aliases may look for example like this, especially the last line: # /etc/aliases mailer-daemon: postmaster postmaster: root nobody: root hostmaster: root usenet: root news: root webmaster: root www: root ftp: root abuse: root noc: root security: root logcheck: root root: jever > > Right. Hmm. Permissins on /root seem not to allow the transport of > > mail to root's mbox. Where is root's mail usually being delivered > > to? Perhaps we have to change that location if we want to keep the > > restrictive permissions. > > exim I have figured out like to deliver mail to /var/mail/mail > instead of root on other systems. Also if root stands in /etc/alias. > No idea why exim do this or if this is our problem. > > regards Andreas I don't know at the moment how it looks in Debian-Edu squeeze, but in Debian lenny exim configuration file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template you will find this explaining what is done: ##################################################### ### router/mmm_mail4root ##################################################### ### router/mmm_mail4root ################################# # deliver mail addressed to root to /var/mail/mail as user mail:mail # if it was not redirected in /etc/aliases or by other means # Exim cannot deliver as root since 4.24 (FIXED_NEVER_USERS) mail4root: debug_print = "R: mail4root for $local_part@$domain" driver = redirect domains = +local_domains data = /var/mail/mail file_transport = address_file local_parts = root user = mail group = mail ##################################################### ### end router/mmm_mail4root ##################################################### Greetings, Jürgen Leibner -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Jürgen Leibner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
