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Why can't I send mail to the superuser?

Mar 2nd, 2000 16:54
Jason Granum, Dave Sill, http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#root-delivery


#This is a security feature. By avoiding delivery to privileged users,
#qmail eliminates the danger of running processes from .qmail files as
#root or appending messages to system files.
If you need to receive the mail sent to a privileged user, you can 
always set an alias up to send mail sent to root, etc, to another non-
privileged user account. This way you won't miss any potentially 
importaint mail.