Re: where does 'root' mail go ?
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +0000, Dave Selby wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote:
> > what do u mean by "via the web with kmail" ... anyways mostly root
> > is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to
> > that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases
>
> "via the web with kmail", as in access the internet for my email.
The Internet is not just the Web. E-mail is one of the bits that's
(usually) decidedly not the Web.
> /etc/aliases contains ...
>
> daemon: root
> bin: root
> sys: root
> sync: root
> games: root
> man: root
> lp: root
> mail: root
> news: root
> uucp: root
> proxy: root
> postgres: root
> www-data: root
>
> So my root mail goes to root ? because of "mail:root" ?
No, that means that mail to the 'mail' user is delivered to root. Is
there a line beginning with "root:"?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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