Re: root and mail

• To: David Mazieres <dm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: root and mail
• From: Gordan <gbo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 10:10:01 +0000
• Cc: Frederik Lindberg <lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "djb-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <djb-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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David Mazieres wrote:
> 
> Gordan <gbo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > Does this mean that there is NO WAY that I can recieve mail as root?
> > Annoying...
> 
> I don't recommend this, but you could put something like:
> 
>   | /var/qmail/bin/preline /bin/mail -d root
> 
> in ~alias/.qmail-root if you really want to do this.  On some systems
> you might need something like:
> 
>   | /var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/libexec/mail.local -d root

Err... Just what would that do? If I use /bin/mail, that wouldn't put my
mail into the Maildir, but in the mbox, wouldn't it?

If it works with Maildir, this will make me very happy. :)

Here I can substitute "root" for something else (such as "me") if I
changed the name of my root account, right?

Gordan

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