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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Toralf Lund, Exim Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to avoid warnings from hosts that have been off the net?
On Monday, April 07, 2003 4:21 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
Toralf Lund <toralf@???> wrote:

>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Toralf Lund wrote:
>> you should deliver to a local user ... during the install (at least
>> with eximconf ) there is a recommendaqtion about this, when is asked
>> to set the
>> postmaster address !
> Doesn't seem very sensible to me. I certainly don't want to log in on
> each and every host on the net all the time to be able to track cron
> command status messages and other e-mails to root.


man sudo
man crontab - look for "MAILTO"
try aliasing root to a non root user
don't read mail as root - it is not as 31337 as you think it is

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