-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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: <http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#root> *************** Root's mail is delivered to nobody - ----------------------------------- If you use procmail (or some other command) for local mail delivery, Postfix will not deliver mail as root. Instead, Postfix runs procmail (or whatever) as nobody. Perhaps some day Wietse will trust Postfix enough to run external commands as root. Solution: just like you're not supposed to log in as root (except for unusual conditions), you're not supposed to receive mail as root. * Create a mail alias for root that forwards mail to a real user. /etc/aliases: root: you * Execute the command newaliases whenever you change the alias database. On some systems the alias database is not in /etc/aliases. To find out the location for your system, execute the command postconf alias_maps. *************** - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2-ex-factory "Emerald" GM) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksBwfcACgkQU92UU+smfQV82QCdGXMOgRtPZ3M3HjYQNjZSy2G+ j7AAn1LZiLNQB4q7Ese1yXQWuNN/OZvZ =/OsW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org