At 12:19 PM 11/17/2000, Neil Grant wrote:
>I have started seting up qmail and have everything working apart from the
>aliases for root, postmaster, etc and smtp (which i havent started on yet)
>
>everything is installed in its default place ie /var/qmail/
>
>in /var/qmail/alias I have done 'touch .qmail-root' and then 'chmod 644
>.qmail-root' as root but all mail to these aliases ends up in
>/var/qmail/Mailbox
>
>what have I done wrong?
>
>also I have found that I regularly (but not everytime) I recieve the dont
>'delete this message' message when I collect my pop3 mail - how can I get
>rid of it?
>
>
>Neil
Delete it. Seriously... the don't delete this message email is some legacy
stuff from older implementations of pop3 mailboxes. When I worked at an
ISP, we upgraded the mail server and our entire client base got those emails.
Just ignore them, delete them and move along....
Jerry Lynde
