Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:23:13 +0100 From: Keith Jones <keith@blueberry.co.uk> To: charlespeters@tecpro.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to forward (or blind copy) email from user1 to user2 Message-ID: <19980618122313.00846@blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199806181051.GAA04611@ais.ais-gwd.com>; from Charles A. Peters on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 06:51:29AM %2B0000 References: <199806181051.GAA04611@ais.ais-gwd.com>
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On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 06:51:29AM +0000, Charles A. Peters wrote:
> I need to be able to read messages sent to my root account. I acess the
> freebsd box via telnet, and using the standdard text based mail clients is
> not a good solution for me.
You really don't want people to connect remotely as 'root', so giving root
any kind of access is probably unwise, even to the POP3 server. Therefore
I would suggest one of the following options:
(1) Edit /etc/aliases to forward all mail to 'root' to your own account.
e.g. on our own internal network server, I have the following alias set up:
# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
root: keith
(2) Edit /etc/aliases to forward all mail to 'root' to a third-party role
account.
e.g. You might set up a new user 'sysmail' (say) with no special privs,
but with POP3 access. You would then want to edit /etc/aliases to:
# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
root: sysmail
In either case, make sure that all the other standard aliases ('hostmaster',
'manager', 'dumper' etc.) are aliased to 'root'.
That way you can keep your system mail and personal mail separate.
Keith
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