From: Shlomo Solomon (shlomo.solomon_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 31 Jan 2006 - 20:00:38 IST
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 19:06, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 בJanuary 2006 16:02, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > > 2 - I don't know why these e-mails are being sent to
> > > root_at_localhost.localdomain instead of root_at_shlomo1.solomon and get
>
> Two important notes about mail:
> 1. localhost should resolve to your 127.0.0.1 loopback address. If mail
> to this host isn't received correctly, than you still have mail
> configuration problem (many other subsystems will try to send mail
I agree, but I have no idea why this is the case. localhost is defined
in /etc/hosts. I also tried changing from localhost to localhost.localdomain
but that didn't solve the problem.
BTW - mail to root_at_shlomo1.solomon OR to root does arrive.
Any ideas??
> to this address [e.g: think about cron jobs running for root]).
but I DO get mail from cron jobs running for root
> 2. It's very bad idea to read mail as root (just like it's bad to
> browse the web as root -- security, security). The correct solution
> for this is to create a global mail alias from the local root to your
> non-root user. In sendmail, simply update /etc/aliases and reload the
I guess you didn't see my previous post, but I already wrote that I have an
alias and get root mail as solomon
> service (I suspect that postfix use the same file, but haven't checked).
On Mandriva it's /etc/postfix/aliases, but according to postfix documentation
it can also be /etc/aliases.
I wonder if the "alias" mechanism could help here, although I doubt it. If I
understand it correctly, alias is used only for user names, not for a fully
defined user_at_host. Am I right?
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