RE: chn.vsnl.net.in

[netbeats <netbeats@xxxxxxxx>]

True I guess - One wrong move and the whole system goes!!
Anyways, I have created the user acct and modified my .fetchmailrc
accordingly to fwd the mails to that account.
I have tried it out too and it works fine, now all the mails get fwd to
the user account.

But i would still like to know why inspite of not having DM entry in the
sendmail.cf why was it reflecting "root@xxxxxxxx"

- - Maneesh

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> Being the only user on a machine is no excuse for logging in as root for
> normal operations on a machine.
> 
> Just create yourself an user account on the machine and use that.For
> example, if your email address is smonk@xxxxxxxx (you *have* registered
> yourself a short email ID at mail.vsnl.com, right?), create a user account
> called smonk and use that. Everything will work as advertised.
> 
> There is no greater heartache than being logged in as root all the time, and
> making *one* stupid move and destroying your system.


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