Enabling root account thru IMAP

Steve Cowles steve at stevecowles.com
Tue Sep 7 14:58:25 UTC 2004


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On Stardate 6609.08, Benjamin J. Weiss said:

| I think in sendmail you'd modify the /etc/aliases file and then
| run the newaliases command, but I'm not sure (I refuse to run sendmail
for
| security reasons).

That's correct! With sendmail, you would edit /etc/aliases (defined in
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc) and *alias* the root account to an account
designated to recieve these e-mails. Then run "newaliases".

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Steve Cowles
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