Re: where does 'root' mail go ?
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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:"?
I got a root:root ....
# This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom.
# It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the
exim package
# distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator.
# This file originally generated by eximconfig at Thu Jan
2 18:25:12 GMT 2003
# See exim info section for details of the things that can
be configured here.
postmaster: root
root: root
daemon: root
bin: root
sys: root
sync: root
Dave
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