On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +0000, Dave Selby wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: > > what do u mean by "via the web with kmail" ... anyways mostly root > > is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to > > that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases > > "via the web with kmail", as in access the internet for my email.
The Internet is not just the Web. E-mail is one of the bits that's (usually) decidedly not the Web. > /etc/aliases contains ... > > daemon: root > bin: root > sys: root > sync: root > games: root > man: root > lp: root > mail: root > news: root > uucp: root > proxy: root > postgres: root > www-data: root > > So my root mail goes to root ? because of "mail:root" ? No, that means that mail to the 'mail' user is delivered to root. Is there a line beginning with "root:"? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
