I'm not very experienced with unix/linux and would appreciate some information on the mail topic.
I have this one box system, using my general account 'rland' and sometimes root for system configuration. What I would like to know is if/how rland recieves mail actually ment for root, because I rarely do a root shell login. I couldn't find anything in the mail man page and /etc/mail.rc has nothing looking like "root:rland", only /etc/aliases created by eximconfig has these entries which to my understanding forwards all mail to postmaster and root to me which is 'rland'. What I'm realy unsure about is if _all_ mail, even the one sent by the lowlevel 'mail' program goes through port 25. If yes, then exim should do all the work and all program/system messages sent to root should reach me with the help of exims /etc/aliases file. Is this correct and how can I generate a system failure which would cause a root mail to test this. Any comments are grately appreciated. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
