Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread David Gartner
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

RE: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Hank Wethington
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

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Drew Raines
* 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

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
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

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Tom Beer
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.

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Guus
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.

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Henning Brauer
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

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Jason Kawaja
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

Re: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Charles Cazabon
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

RE: No mailbox for root

2001-06-08 Thread Joshua Nichols
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