On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:50, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Once upon a time Sunday 15 August 2004 10:24 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > Ok Samuel, this default setup of Postfix is new to me. Thanks for > > pointing this out. I will have to read the Postfix documentation to > > understand the "various security reasons". I just wonder why the write > > "deliver mail _as_ root" and not "deliver mail _to_ root". I will read > > about that as I am much more familiar with Sendmail. > > Mostly postfix will not deliver mail to root because the deamons run as user > posfix who can not write to roots mail spool file as he can not get the > correct permissions by default though roots mail is aliased to the user > postfix. it is all done from a security aspect > Mail to root can be aliased to any user or users. > Dennis > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
