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Re: where does 'root' mail go ?



On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:28, Dave Selby wrote:

> /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" ?

Nope. Anything addressed to "mail" is readdressed to "root" and wanders
off somewhere. You need to add a line something like "root: dave" (then
run newaliases). Then all that stuff will go to dave.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com



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