On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +0000, Dave Selby wrote: > > On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: > > > what do u mean by "via the web with kmail" ... anyways mostly root > > > is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to > > > that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases > > > > "via the web with kmail", as in access the internet for my email. > > The Internet is not just the Web. E-mail is one of the bits that's > (usually) decidedly not the Web. > > > /etc/aliases contains ... > > > > daemon: root > > bin: root > > sys: root > > sync: root > > games: root > > man: root > > lp: root > > mail: root > > news: root > > uucp: root > > proxy: root > > postgres: root > > www-data: root > > > > So my root mail goes to root ? because of "mail:root" ? > > No, that means that mail to the 'mail' user is delivered to root. Is > there a line beginning with "root:"?
I got a root:root .... # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. # It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # This file originally generated by eximconfig at Thu Jan 2 18:25:12 GMT 2003 # See exim info section for details of the things that can be configured here. postmaster: root root: root daemon: root bin: root sys: root sync: root Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
