Re: HELP: root can't get mail.....

1999-05-19 Thread Justin Bell
qmail will not deliver mail to the root account, following the instructions from the INSTALL file you need to setup a file in the ~alias directory called .qmail-root, either an empty file, which will save mail in the ~alias account, or file containing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward root mail to

Re: HELP: root can't get mail.....

1999-05-19 Thread Julian L.C. Brown
At 08:39 AM 5/19/99 -0500, Justin Bell wrote: qmail will not deliver mail to the root account, following the instructions from the INSTALL file you need to setup a file in the ~alias directory called .qmail-root, either an empty file, which will save mail in the ~alias account, or file

Re: HELP: root can't get mail.....

1999-05-19 Thread Dustin Marquess
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Julian L.C. Brown wrote: At 08:39 AM 5/19/99 -0500, Justin Bell wrote: qmail will not deliver mail to the root account, following the instructions from the INSTALL file you need to setup a file in the ~alias directory called .qmail-root, either an empty file, which will

Re: HELP: root can't get mail.....

1999-05-19 Thread Dave Sill
"Julian L.C. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I never did understand why everyone says Qmail does not allow you to receive email as root because I have it set up to do just that. What they mean is that qmail never delivers mail *as* root. I.e., qmail-local never runs as root. Sure, you

RE: HELP: root can't get mail.....

1999-05-19 Thread Dan Poynor
automatically deposited to my personal user account and I can easily retrieve them from remote locations. Cheers, DAN -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dustin Marquess Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 9:22 AM To: Julian L.C. Brown Cc: qmail mailin