"Julian L.C. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You know, I never did understand why everyone says Qmail does not allow you
>to receive email as root because I have it set up to do just that.
What they mean is that qmail never delivers mail *as* root. I.e.,
qmail-local never runs as root. Sure, you can have some other user
(e.g., "alias") deliver to a mailbox called "root" (but owned by
"alias"), but that's not the same as delivering mail to root, as
root, because you can't have a .qmail file that runs with root
privileges.
>From INSTALL.alias:
* root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate
mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root,
those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the
postmaster.) Set up an alias for root in ~alias/.qmail-root. .qmail
files are similar to .forward files, but beware that they are strictly
line-oriented---see dot-qmail.0 for details.
-Dave
