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Title: what is the "system" mail account?
Post by: Dunc on June 14, 2000, 03:17:48 AM

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?

Title: RE: what is the "system" mail account?
Post by: Michael Regan on June 15, 2000, 05:53:41 AM

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.

Title: RE: what is the "system" mail account?
Post by: Michael Regan on June 15, 2000, 06:31:25 AM

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

Title: RE: what is the "system" mail account?
Post by: Dunc on June 15, 2000, 10:20:49 PM

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.

Title: RE: what is the "system" mail account?
Post by: Charlie Brady on June 19, 2000, 01:32:13 PM

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