root mail

[David McCall]

suppose I want to get mail as root.
is there a safe way other than routing it to another user?

thankx
dmc

root mail problem

[Aleksander Rozman - Andy]

Hi !

Since I reinstalled (upgraded) FreeBSD to 3.1 I can get mail for root. I
can send mail or get mail at any of addresses, but not as root.

Maillog log shows this error:

Mar  4 18:27:15 atechnet qmail: 920568435.241139 delivery 1052: deferral:
Not_allowed_to_perform_deliveries_as_root./

I had little rpoblems with permissions on several files so if someone shows
me how must I set files, I would be very thankful. Or maybe there is
another problem.

Please help.
Andy

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Re: root mail

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:35:10PM -0700, David McCall wrote:
> suppose I want to get mail as root.
> is there a safe way other than routing it to another user?

There is no other way, be it safe or unsafe.

Apart from forwarding to another host ofcourse, or having procmail/binmail
deliver.

Greetz, Peter
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Re: root mail

[Robin Bowes]

David McCall wrote:
> 
> suppose I want to get mail as root.
> is there a safe way other than routing it to another user?

mail to root goes to the alias user (as you obviously know...!)

I use mutt and have the following in my root user's .muttrc:

spoolfile='/var/qmail/alias/Maildir/'

So when I read mail as root I am actually reading the alias maildir.

R.
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Re: root mail problem

[Eric Dahnke]

Hello,

qmail won´t deliver to root. make a .qmail-root file in ~alias and within that
file put &user to deliver root´s mail to user.

- cheers eric

>
>Hi !
>
>Since I reinstalled (upgraded) FreeBSD to 3.1 I can get mail for root. I
>can send mail or get mail at any of addresses, but not as root.
>
>Maillog log shows this error:
>
>Mar  4 18:27:15 atechnet qmail: 920568435.241139 delivery 1052: deferral:
>Not_allowed_to_perform_deliveries_as_root./
>
>I had little rpoblems with permissions on several files so if someone shows

>me how must I set files, I would be very thankful. Or maybe there is
>another problem.
>
>Please help.
>Andy
>
>**

>*  Aleksander Rozman - Andy  * Member of:  E2:EA, E2F, SAABer, Trekkie,  *

>* [EMAIL PROTECTED]  * X-Phile, Heller's angel, True's screamer, *

>*[EMAIL PROTECTED]* True's Trooper, Questie, Legacy, PO5, *

>* Maribor, Slovenia (Europe) * Profiler, Buffy (Slayerete), Pretender*

>* ICQ-UIC: 4911125   *

>* PGP key available  *http://www.atechnet.ml.org/~andy/  *

>**

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