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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:56:30 GMT
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        Jeff Soule <jsoule@webcrossing.com>, "Caleb Walker" <cwalker@cwalk.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: redirecting mail from root to another user...
Message-ID:  <E14KzFe-0000oC-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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> On Monday 22 January 2001 19:44, Caleb Walker wrote:
> 
> > > I have a qpopper, sendmail, and BIND running on my home machine.  I
a> m
> > wondering what the best way to redirect all mail that gets sent to
root>  to
> > get sent to my other user which is cwalker.  I am not sure but,
setting>  up
> > an alias in the alias file doesnt seem like a good idea.  If it is let
> me
> > know.

Why would it be a bad idea ?
All my root mail is redirected via /etc/alias to an administrative (non-root)
user account. Actually safer than reading it as root..

Cliff



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