root mailboxes and aliasing (was: Re: cvt_cyrusdb_all)

From: Jonathan Marsden (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 16:53:06 EDT


On 6 Aug 2003, Simon Matter writes:

>> root should not have a mailbox.

> I agree for normal systems. However, in certain situations it may
> be useful to have a 'root' mailbox. If you have

> local_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp

> in /etc/postfix/main.cf to make single instance store work as
> expected, the aliases file has no effect and postfix will deliver
> syslog messages to root. One can then grant access to this box for
> other users via Cyrus.

If you use

  mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp

instead, aliases seem to work fine (so root can be aliased as usual).
Does this approach disable single instance store?? We use Postfix
2.0.11-2 RPMs on Red Hat 8.0 here this way.

Jonathan

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