On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to help a friend (not on the list)who just installed Mandrake 8.1 > and haven't succeeded in solving this. It's is probably a stupid question, > but I've looked at all the relevant man pages and I'm obviously missing > something.
Is there an *important* reason that root should read the mail directly? Consider the factthat security fixes were issued for both mutt and pine recently. Is there a good reason why the mail is not forwarded to a certain local user? See: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#root So chances are that what is really needed is simply to add: root: youruser to /etc/aliases , and to re-ren postalias (and reload postfix). You can alway find some other workarounds, but the basic fact is that 'root' and 'noboddy' should generally not be real users that read mail. > > Root doesn't get any mail. Root can send mail and it arrives. Users can > send mail to each other and it all arrives. Users can send mail to root > but even though there is no error messge, the mail doesn't arrive. Even > messages sent by CRON jobs don't arrive. Do you really have to be logged-on as root to be notified of a cron job that has failed? -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
