On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:39:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oookay... I've read those... But i still don't quite get it. Am I now
> supposed to put into the .qmail-root my own account's email-address or the email
> for the root's account? (the latter seems pretty dull)
Just yours. For instance, in my ~alias/.qmail-root, I have "&john" (no quotes), which
means forward to john on local host.
Basically, it works like this. Someone writes a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail checks the /etc/password (or user assign) file for the user.
Finds the user root and retrieves the home directory location.
Checks the permission for the home directory (/root). It won't deliver to any directory
with owner root.
Forwards the mail to user alias.
qmail-local checks for .qmail-root.
Finds it.
Checks delivery instructions in .qmail-root.
Follows the instructions.
There is a nice picture for it in qmail/doc/PIC.local2alias
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