Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 04:14:53 -0600 From: "Adam" <adam@wiredrave.com> To: <founder.fang@philips.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: how to receive root mail by outlook express? Message-ID: <000501c1c109$ee415510$0101000a@homer> In-Reply-To: <OFE858EC0B.33218D96-ON48256B6F.001107A2@diamond.philips.com>
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You definitely don't want to enable being able to telnet directly to the root account. You may want to look into ssh, (man ssh), but that's another story. What you can do, is login as a normal user, then su (man su) to root, if you have elm or mutt installed you can then: # elm -f /var/mail/root or # mutt -f /var/mail/root If you want to get all of root (as well as any of the mail sent to the daemons) sent to your regular user account (local or non local) edit /etc/aliases, there will be a line (commented out most likely) that is something like: Root: some@address.com If it's commented out it will have a # before it. Uncomment this line, then put your email address there. If your account is local on the system, then just put the username. After this, save the file, and then run: newaliases (as root). This will update sendmail's alias table and all mail sent to root will now be forwarded to whatever address you specified. Hope this help. Adam -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of founder.fang@philips.com Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:14 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how to receive root mail by outlook express? my friends: i am running a freebsd 4.5 box, everyday the system send many mail to root account. i can read this mail before my server console, but i can't receive them in outlook express. for the normal account, it is ok to use outlook express, i think this is because of security setting, how can i change the setting, so that i can use outlook express for root account? i also can't telnet(from another pc)to the system using root account, how can i change the setting to make the root account telnetable? Best regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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