You should not send mail from your »root« account. The »root« is a
login that bypasses all security protection on your system. The root
account should only be used to perform system administration, and only
used for as short a time as possible.
You should *not* use the »root« account for daily use or as your
personal login. Why not? Well, one reason to avoid using root's
privileges is that it is very easy to do irreparable damage as
root. Another reason is that you might be tricked into running a
Trojan-horse program -- that is a program that takes advantage of your
super-user powers to compromise the security of your system behind
your back. Any good book on Unix system administration will cover this
topic in more detail -- consider reading one if it is new to you.
Please use adduser and create a regular user account for you and send
mail from that account.
If you haven't sent from a root account there is a chance that
our list server has inserted a line like "Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
which confuses the lists software. In that case please wait few
hours and resend.
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 28 01:40:40 2000
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2)
> from murphy.debian.org by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE
> via smail with smtp
> id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:40:34 +0100 (CET)
> Received: from ([209.41.108.199]) by teergrube (0 sec delayed, relaying
> denied)
> Received: (qmail 19995 invoked by uid 847); 28 Jan 2000 00:21:38 -0000
> Received: (qmail 31112 invoked by uid 38); 28 Jan 2000 00:04:38 -0000
> Received: (qmail 14821 invoked by uid 38); 27 Jan 2000 23:51:37 -0000
> Date: 27 Jan 2000 23:51:37 -0000
> X-From_:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 27 17:51:36 2000
> X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: (qmail 6158 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2000 23:42:52 -0000
> Received: from weald.air.saab.se (136.163.212.3)
> by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2000 23:42:52 -0000
> Received: from f8 (mailgw8.securemote.net [136.163.207.3])
> by weald.air.saab.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA27458
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:42:49 +0100 (MET)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: from [136.163.241.97] (HELO f8)
> by securemote.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.1)
> with SMTP id 202981 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:42:47 +0100
> Old-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:40:58 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: InterScan NT Alert
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored
> X-Envelope-To: debian-user-digest
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Receiver, Combitech Network has detected virus(es) in the e-mail attachment.
>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:40:58 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
> Method: Mail
> From: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> File: Happy99.exe
> Action: clean failed - deleted
> Virus: TROJ_SKA
>
Regards,
SPI and Debian listmaster
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