On 01/02/2014 07:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jan 2, 2014, at 5:34 AM, Lars E. Pettersson lars@homer.se wrote:
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Important mail to/from root is not an "edge case".
So important that by default root isn't informed of these messages?
Huh?
With sendmail I was not informed of any such messages when logging in as root. Without sendmail, there's been no change in behavior at all. So what am I missing, exactly? How am I missing it?
Log in as root, write mail, press enter, there you go.
How you miss it?
With an MTA mail is delivered to root until you change /etc/aliases. To read roots mail you have to login as root and run a mail client. With a change of the aliases file you can chose to deliver root mail to a user, on the current system, another system, or a combination of these. The mail is read using a mail client.
Without an MTA these mails are totally lost, they do not appear in /var/spool/mail/root, nor any other user, they are never deliver, and thereby lost.
Lars