Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:47:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: you have mail msg at root login Message-ID: <20020121074740.GA1336@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020120154826.A31358@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOKECMCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <3C4AD1AB.3030204@rambo.simx.org> <20020120143738.A306@localhost> <20020120154826.A31358@ns.museum.rain.com>
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:48:26PM -0800, James Long wrote: > > Also, edit /etc/aliases to divert root's email to your normal user > > account. > > Are there technical reasons to do it this way rather than say, > using the ~root/.forward file? > Does convention count as a technical reason :) It will be a few millisecondseconds faster I guess, the alias checking comes first. Also of course, all the mail that is destined for root may actually have been addressed to one of the many other pseudo-users in the system (postmaster, abuse, etc). You may actually want mail for these users to go to some other admin account. In aliases it is simpler to set this up than diddling around with procmail or whatever in the .forward file. The last reason sounds more convincing than the first two :). -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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