(this isn't about Debian development anymore. I've added a Cc to debian-user; if you have any follow-up questions, please drop the -devel Cc).
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 08:44:04PM +0300, Jayson Willson wrote: > Thank you very much for your answer! > Could you please tell me, why is it recommended to forward root's mail to > regular user? I sometimes log in as root on tty or via sudo to administer > system, and thus I would be able to have root's and user's mailboxes > separated, while still reading root's mail. Just have your system deliver it in a separate mailbox, then. If you have the "allow_filter" option in your userforward router enabled, you can do that by creating a file ~/.forward with the following content: # Exim filter <== do not remove this, exim checks it if $h_to: contains "root" then save /path/to/Maildir/rootmails/ finish endif with the default exim config, this will cause it to be delivered in a maildir with the given path name. You can then read it with mutt -f /path/to/Maildir/rootmails as the normal user, rather than as root. (or you could set up an IMAP server, yada yada) > Is there anything that I have missed? The security implications of using a MUA as root. If there is an exploitable bug in your MUA, you may end up with a compromised system. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26
