trying to solve my root email problem

[jnet]

I can not send email or receive email to ROOT
other emails are all OK
I looked at log file and found this

User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list

Any Idea?

while searching in internet somewhere I saw if I run this

User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list

It gets solved...

any Idea?

 

[njm]

hey jnet...
you can easily solve this root problem....

for example... i've seen that most of the system accounts...exim will not drom mail locally...but you can as i did...create a:

.forward file under your root $HOME with the username inside of the destination mailbox...


i for example have logwatch running and all the male to be delivered to root locally..is forwarded to DA ADMIN account, how ?!

as root in you root homedir do this :

echo "admin" >> .forward

it's done

 

[jnet]

Thanks a lot for your help offer

You see what I did was to make a .forward and uploaded it to root
inside it I typed [email protected]

but for strange reason it just does not work.

I am confused!

 

[nobaloney]

If you really want to be able to send/receive emails as root, then you need to check the exim.conf file and remove root from the never_users list, and then restart exim.

This is dangerous and not recommended.

Jeff

 

[jnet]

No I do not want to receive or send as root
I want just be able to receive my email where ever.

so I just went to ETC/aliases
and put another email for example

root: [email protected]

but email is not being redirected
the email goes no where!

 

[nobaloney]

Have you tried creating a .forward file in the /root directory with the same contents?

I don't use either method; I create a directory for my hostname in the /etc/virtual directory, with the same ownership as all the other domain names in /etc/virtual.

Then in that directory I create an aliases file, chown mail:mail, chmod 600, with these contents:

abuse: admin
hostmaster: admin
postmaster: admin
webmaster: admin
root: admin
bin: admin
daemon: admin
nobody: admin
ftp: admin
operator: admin
uucp: admin
admin: [email protected]

where of course [email protected] is my email address, where I want it all delivered.

I can't recommend this, as DirectAdmin specifically says to not do it. But it works for me.

Jeff