From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 0:56:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920FB37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14KzFe-0000oC-00; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:56:30 +0000 To: Jeff Soule , "Caleb Walker" , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: redirecting mail from root to another user... Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:56:30 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message