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Bug#: 28256
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
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Reporter: Hallgrimur Gunnarsson (RETIRED) <hhg@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2003-09-09 05:23 0000 
[CUT from qmail-1.03-r12.ebuild]

#make sure root can get some mail
[ ! -d /root/.maildir ] && ${MAILDIRMAKE} /root/.maildir
[ ! -e /root/.qmail ] && cp ${FILESDIR}/${PV}-${PR}/dot_qmail /root/.qmail
[ -e /root/.qmail ] && chmod 644 /root/.qmail

[/CUT]

Earlier in the ebuild an alias is set up for root,
so this is unnecessary. Besides, even if there wouldn't
be an alias, the mail would bounce since mail is
never delivered to the root user in qmail.


Reproducible: Always
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------- Comment #1 From Robin Johnson 2003-09-11 17:52:45 0000 ------- 
fixed in CVS.
sorry about that one, it was left as a remainder from before I picked up qmail and I didn't fix it yet.

i've put a note into the ebuild about the old behaviour, and telling them to delete the old directory and symlink up ~alias/.maildir.
For fresh installs of qmail (no /root/.maildir existing) it is created automatically.

------- Comment #2 From Hallgrimur Gunnarsson (RETIRED) 2003-09-12 15:00:15 0000 ------- 
Ok, although as a policy people shouldn't be reading mail as root.
Mail for postmaster/root/mailer-daemon should be forwarded
to a normal user, but since we don't know what user to forward
to and people might have a habbit of using root, it's perhaps
not such bad default behaviour. I think it'd nice though to put
a notice that recommends people to forward it.
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