From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 17:26:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0220116A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:26:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFC943D39 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd5mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.182]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I9W002S4OG5A4D0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:26:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd5mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I9W0058DOG5VA90@pd5mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:26:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I9W00I48OG59B@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:26:29 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:26:28 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <20050106090113.GB20461@mccme.ru> To: "Eugene M. Minkovskii" Message-id: <20050106172628.GA776@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <20050105202329.GA30133@mccme.ru> <19861fba0501051514873eea3@mail.gmail.com> <20050106090113.GB20461@mccme.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: J65nko BSD cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and mbox permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:26:30 -0000 On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:01:13PM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:14:05AM +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: > " On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:23:29 +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: > " > Hi. > " > > " > I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the mail, > " > mailbox's (/var/mail/root) permission bits has been setted to > " > 600. Who and how it does? Can I change this behavior? > " > > " > -- > " For security reasons, the "root" account should not receice any mail. > " One of sendmail's alternatives "qmail" will even NEVER send any mail > " to the root account. > " > " Enter an alias for root in "/etc/mail/aliases" and run the "newaliases" command. > > Yes, I know this reasons, but I want to know what happens. Who > change permissions on /var/mail/root. Why I see it in FreeBSD 5.3 > and don't see in FreeBSD 5.2.1? > > What do you mean "don't rechive any mail?" mach daemond, mail to > root they reports and I want easy way to reading it. Mail for root can be delivered to any account you choose. It doesn't have to be delivered to the root account. J65nko BSD suggested that you create an alias; this would allow root's email to be delivered to your account. It doesn't get much easier than that. I can't answer the rest of your questions. > -- > Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii I'm not sure about this, but I suspect you probably mean to say "Sincerely yours" rather than "Sensory yours". The former is a common complimentary close. The latter is ... strange :) -- Danny