On 1/2/06, Michael A. Peters <<a href="mailto:mpeters@mac.com">mpeters@mac.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 13:14 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 12:59 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Wouldn't make sense to edit /etc/aliases while installing the OS and ask > > the operator to provide a real email as an alias? > > It is a very common error to forget the root alias. As a result, the > > email sent by housekeeping software (such as logwatch) is ignored, often > > with unpleasant results. > > > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/thread.html#00045">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/thread.html#00045</a> > > > > This may or may not require to edit the relayhost variable in the MTA > > (ask the operator to provide a default mail relay), I'm not sure > > (depending on how "correct" or thorough the installer should be). > > That sounds like a good idea to me. Perhaps it could default to aliasing > root to the user created during firstboot, or something similar? It should go to a local user and it should ask which local user. root always should go to a local user, and if needed, the local user can then forward to somewhere else - but it should go to a local user first so that if there is a problem delivering, you don't end up with a loop to the root account. </blockquote></div>Then it should also be made easy to have that users mailed copied/forwarded to another email -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.