Robert Land declaimed:
> I'm not very experienced with unix/linux and would
> appreciate some information on the mail topic.
>
> I have this one box system, using my general account
> 'rland' and sometimes root for system configuration.
>
> What I would like to know is if/how rland recieves mail
> actually ment for root, because I rarely do a root shell
> login. I couldn't find anything in the mail man page and
> /etc/mail.rc has nothing looking like "root:rland", only
> /etc/aliases created by eximconfig has these entries
> which to my understanding forwards all mail to postmaster
> and root to me which is 'rland'.
>
> What I'm realy unsure about is if _all_ mail, even the one
> sent by the lowlevel 'mail' program goes through port 25.
> If yes, then exim should do all the work and all program/system
> messages sent to root should reach me with the help of exims
> /etc/aliases file. Is this correct and how can I generate
> a system failure which would cause a root mail to test
> this.
Here's a test routine:
1. Log in as rland.
2. $ mail root -s "mail to root" </dev/null
3. Launch your favorite email reader ('mail' will do) and see if you
have a message titled "mail to root".
4. You should check out the Mail-Administrator and Mail-User HOWTO docs.
Debian installs exim by default, anything named 'sendmail' on a default
Debian system is actually a symlink to exim.
HTH, Paul
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