Re: where does "root" mail go ?
On Friday 07 March 2003 9:57 pm, Glenn English wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:20, Dave Selby wrote:
> > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I
> > cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail.
>
> On some systems (of which mine is one) it it not possible, because the
> email delivery process isn't allowed to suid root, to deliver mail to
> root. I really have no idea what would happen to it.
>
> The solution is to set an email alias for root to a genuine mortal.
OK this is real usefull, thanks to everyone, Ive got something to work on now
Dave
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