On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Andrzej Adam Filip <a...@onet.eu> wrote: > Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 13:56 -0500, Bradlee Landis wrote: >>> On RHEL5, dovecot 1.0.7, I have set up sendmail to use `deliver` for >>> my local mda. It keeps giving me this error for the root user though: >> >> Don't deliver mails to root. Forward them to some other user. > > Standard recommendation (for sendmail and other MTA) is to create alias > for root. > > Sendmail procedure: In /etc/mail/asises files add: > > root: some-non-privileged-user > > and run newaliases command to recompile aliases file. >
Hm, ok, but it worked with procmail. Since we never used to check it anyways, I might just send it to /dev/null :) (P.S. Sorry arnaj for sending you the email to you directly before... they should fix the mailing list to do this automatically IMO.) -- Thanks, Brad Landis
