I am used to sendmail, but mdk 9.0 defaulted to postfix, so I decided to try it; i.e. I am asking a postfix-newbie question.
I noticed in postfix's alias file that mail to root will be only delivered to a regular user (see clips below) The most transparent work-around I found 1) creates a proxy user, e.g. 'rootx' . 2) set that in 'aliases' 3) point mail program's INBOX to /var/spool/mail/rootx Am I missing something? --how do others handle this less clunky ? - Horst ~~~~~~~ from the /etc/postfix/aliases ~~~~~~~~~ ... # For various security reasons, postfix WILL NOT deliver mail as root, so # ensure that the root alias is aliased to a HUMAN user, as otherwise # mail may get delivered to the $default_privs user (nobody). ... # Person who should get root's mail. This alias # must exist. ## default:: root: postfix ## goes to nobody:: root: root root: rootx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
