On Friday 07 March 2003 1:16 pm, Dave Selby wrote: >On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote: >> 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:"? > >I got a root:root .... > > ># This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. ># It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the >exim package ># distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system > administrator. # This file originally generated by eximconfig at Thu Jan >2 18:25:12 GMT 2003 ># See exim info section for details of the things that can >be configured here. > >postmaster: root >root: root > >daemon: root >bin: root >sys: root >sync: root > >Dave
That 'root:root' means that any system email meant for the adminstrator goes to the account 'root.' What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and add an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command 'newaliases.' Then any email meant for 'root' will instead go to 'username.' Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
