On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:00:38PM +0200, 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
Wietse Venema agrees with you. Postfix will flatly refuse to deliver mail to root. You must provide such an alias. > I guess you didn't see my previous post, but I already wrote that I have an > alias and get root mail as solomon > Indeed, the problem is that that postfix figured that that message had to be sent away to some remote destination and not handled at this local station. Try: /usr/sbin/postconf mydestination to see which hosts are considered "targets". I guess you simply need to add 'localhost.localdomain' to the parameter 'mydestination' in /etc/postfix/main.cf http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#mydestination Reloading postfix after that might be useful. > > > 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? No, no problem with the aliases file. It simply didn't get to local delivery. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
