On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:11:44PM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On 05-Nov-99 Andr?s wrote:
> > Really paranoid.
> >
> > So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in
> > /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir).
>
> You still can if you create a maildir for ~alias.
And this is not paranoid, because it is delivered as user "alias"
and not "root".
Unix is not WindowsXX. You don't have to work as "root" to get work
done - even some sysadmin tasks. I almost never login as root - besides
from the console for upgrades - and I surely never read mails as root.
\Maex
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