Quinn Comendant wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:48:30 -0400, Jake Vickers wrote:
>> As a side note, you can define what email addresses to send email to
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] by changing the
>> .qmail files in /var/qmail/alias/ and sending them to a real email
>> address. I usually just sym link .qmail-root to .qmail-anonymous
>> since I have them going to the same place (as Erik said, for cron
>> jobs).
>
> I see how this works. Does anybody recommend giving all unix
> accounts/pseudo-accounts on the machine have an alias? As it is, none
> will receive mail, for example: `echo 'Hey you!' | mail apache -s 'msg
> to apache'` results in a failure notice.
I think this would be a good idea, but troublesome to implement in the basic
toaster, due to (possible) distro variations. What if we write a script to
generate the /var/qmail/alias entries from the /etc/aliases file? We could
include it with the qt-plus package. Any interest in this?
> Below are all the pseudo account aliases from my /etc/aliases. Which
> incidentally isn't technically part of sendmail...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 ~]$rpm -qf /etc/aliases
> setup-2.5.37-1.3
> But Qmail definitely doesn't use it.
>
> Q
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
> mailer-daemon: postmaster
> postmaster: root
>
> # General redirections for pseudo accounts.
> bin: root
> daemon: root
> adm: root
> lp: root
> sync: root
> shutdown: root
> halt: root
> mail: root
> news: root
> uucp: root
> operator: root
> games: root
> gopher: root
> ftp: root
> nobody: root
> radiusd: root
> nut: root
> dbus: root
> vcsa: root
> canna: root
> wnn: root
> rpm: root
> nscd: root
> pcap: root
> apache: root
> webalizer: root
> dovecot: root
> fax: root
> quagga: root
> radvd: root
> pvm: root
> amanda: root
> privoxy: root
> ident: root
> named: root
> xfs: root
> gdm: root
> mailnull: root
> postgres: root
> sshd: root
> smmsp: root
> postfix: root
> netdump: root
> ldap: root
> squid: root
> ntp: root
> mysql: root
> desktop: root
> rpcuser: root
> rpc: root
> nfsnobody: root
>
> ingres: root
> system: root
> toor: root
> manager: root
> dumper: root
> abuse: root
>
> # mailman aliases
> mailman: postmaster
> mailman-owner: mailman
>
> newsadm: news
> newsadmin: news
> usenet: news
> ftpadm: ftp
> ftpadmin: ftp
> ftp-adm: ftp
> ftp-admin: ftp
> www: webmaster
> webmaster: root
> noc: root
> security: root
> hostmaster: root
> info: postmaster
> marketing: postmaster
> sales: postmaster
> support: postmaster
>
>
> # trap decode to catch security attacks
> decode: root
>
> # Person who should get root's mail
> #root: marc
> backup: root
> root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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