No mailbox for root
Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except... Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem. Similar, almost identical, setup. How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Tia, Guus.
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echo account_you_want_root's_mail_to_go_to /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root Guus wrote: Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except... Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem. Similar, almost identical, setup. How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Tia, Guus.
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do you have a root alias? /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root? Do you have delivery instructions for root? cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root where does it go? local, to another address? If local, does the user have a mailbox set up right? if the .qmail-default for that user is ./Maildir/ is Maildir available in the directory, and was it set up correctly? Hope that helps. Hank Wethington Information Logistics Information Logistics 897 Oak Park Blvd. #276 Pismo Beach, CA 93449 805.474.0852 www.GoInfoLogistics.com mailto:info.at.GoInfoLogistics.com -Original Message- From: xmail [mailto:xmail]On Behalf Of Guus Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No mailbox for root Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except... Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem. Similar, almost identical, setup. How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Tia, Guus.
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* Guus [EMAIL PROTECTED], 17:22 06/08/2001: How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Read INSTALL.alias. -- Drew
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Guus, For security reasons qmail does not send mail directly to the root account. This is in the docs and in Life With Qmail. You need to create alias' for Postmaster, Mailer-Daemon, and root. To do this you need to decide which user should receive mail for those accounts (most likely yourself, eg. guus, or the name of your system account): echo guus /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root echo guus /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster ln -s /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster After you've done that go back and reread Life With Qmail at www.lifewithqmail.org to find out _why_ you needed to do it. Regards. At 05:22 PM 6/8/2001 +0200, you wrote: Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except... Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem. Similar, almost identical, setup. How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Tia, Guus. - Kourosh Ghassemieh MindWare Information Systems Technologies 9255 Sunset Blvd, Penthouse West Hollywood CA 90069 (310) 729-1784 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking Solutions for Your Business
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In qmail you never have a mailbox for root You may read dot-qmail Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem. Similar, almost identical, setup. What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. This is exactly the concept of qmail. Forward mails for root to another account, which could be found in various documents. Tom
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I read the manual and created the files ~alias/.qmail-root etc. Problem solved. Thanks, Guus. How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Tia, Guus.
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:22:07PM +0200, Guus wrote: root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root is missing. chances that .qmail-postmaster is also missing. How can I create a mailbox for root? You cannot. qmail never delivers mail to root. You have to create a .qmail-root in /var/qmail/alias. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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qmail-lspawn ignores/denies nonzero uids for delivery(root - 0). http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures/PIC.local2local man dot-qmail for the alias On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Guus wrote: Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except... Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem. Similar, almost identical, setup. How can I create a mailbox for root? What I want is to forward mail for root to another user. Tia, Guus. /* Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin */
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Guus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) [...] How can I create a mailbox for root? `man dot-qmail` and `echo user ~alias/.qmail-root` Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
RE: No mailbox for root
Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message root@mydomain Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) qmail won't deliver to root. You want somethin like this in /var/qmail/users/assign =root:USERNAME:UID:GID:/home/USERNAME::: I'm making alot of assumptions here, but since you didn't give us any details... Why do you need to email root anyway? --joshua.
