Here's some more info, but I don't know what it means. If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it doesn't arrive (I get a "could not be delivered" error mail from postfix as I already mentioned in my previous posts). But if I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it gets transformed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it DOES get delivered.
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:00, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Tuesday 31 January 2006 19:06, Oron Peled wrote: > > On Tuesday, 31 בJanuary 2006 16:02, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > > 2 - I don't know why these e-mails are being sent to > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get > > > > Two important notes about mail: > > 1. localhost should resolve to your 127.0.0.1 loopback address. If mail > > to this host isn't received correctly, than you still have mail > > configuration problem (many other subsystems will try to send mail > > I agree, but I have no idea why this is the case. localhost is defined > in /etc/hosts. I also tried changing from localhost to > localhost.localdomain but that didn't solve the problem. > > BTW - mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR to root does arrive. > > Any ideas?? > > > to this address [e.g: think about cron jobs running for root]). > > but I DO get mail from cron jobs running for root > > > 2. It's very bad idea to read mail as root (just like it's bad to > > browse the web as root -- security, security). The correct solution > > for this is to create a global mail alias from the local root to your > > non-root user. In sendmail, simply update /etc/aliases and reload the > > I guess you didn't see my previous post, but I already wrote that I have an > alias and get root mail as solomon > > > service (I suspect that postfix use the same file, but haven't > > checked). > > On Mandriva it's /etc/postfix/aliases, but according to postfix > documentation it can also be /etc/aliases. > > I wonder if the "alias" mechanism could help here, although I doubt it. If > I understand it correctly, alias is used only for user names, not for a > fully defined [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am I right? -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.4.2) on LINUX Mandriva 2006 ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
