Topic: what is the "system" mail account?

[Dunc]

I've installed 3.1 and am curious why I cannot send mail to root? Shouldn't I be able to??? I've installed other Linux variants and root has been where I've had system msgs sent - is there a standard I should be adopting for E-SMITH?

[Michael Regan]

Check the documentation for qmail. I am pretty sure it won't let you send a message directly to root. There should be an alias for root, usually postmaster, in the setup.

Qmail was with a very high level of security.

[Michael Regan]

Check /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.alais.

[Dunc]

Thank you Micheal, I'll look into the supplied link.

Now that you mentioned it, I beleive all my other installs were using regular sendmail, not qmail.

Thanks for your reply.

[Charlie Brady]

Dunc wrote:

> I've installed 3.1 and am curious why I cannot send mail to
> root? Shouldn't I be able to???

Yes, you can send messages to root, but they are forwarded to the email address that you define as the "admin" email address.

The MTA used in e-smith, qmail, never delivers email to root, as a security precaution.

Charlie