Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 11/16/2009 10:05 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Mail delivery to root does not work in postfix, I don't remember the exact reason, but I think it is because it uses procmail for local delivery. The postfix devs do not trust any external (to them) tool, so they refuse to run procmail as root to send email to root... therefore, mail to root has to be sent instead to a user.
Hmm, can't say I've ever encountered that problem. Postfix has no problem running procmail,
Except to root.
And delivery via procmail is not enabled by default either.
Right, those people can receive mail on root's account.
Look, it is documented:
Okay, I see. Yes, you're right - nonetheless, an openSUSE vanilla postfix installation does not use procmail for local deliveries, and your assertion that "Mail delivery to root does not work in postfix", is wrong. Here is a bit of my root mailbox: # mail Heirloom mailx version 12.2 01/07/07. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/root": 123 messages 123 new
N 1 root@cadmium.local Sun Jan 11 16:10 21/627 HP Agent Trap Alert N 2 root@cadmium.local Sun Jan 11 16:10 21/647 HP Insight Management Agents Trap Alarm N 3 root@cadmium.local Sun Jan 11 17:44 21/627 HP Agent Trap Alert N 4 root@cadmium.local Fri Jan 16 16:15 21/627 HP Agent Trap Alert N 5 MAILER-DAEMON@cadm Sun Jan 18 01:19 77/2806 Delayed Mail (still being retried) N 6 MAILER-DAEMON@cadm Sun Jan 18 14:16 75/2594 Delayed Mail (still being retried)
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