From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 06:59:25 CST

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Fritz Mesedilla:
>
> Greetings!
> I keep on receiving cron mail on the postfix account.
> Is it safe to forward all postfix mail to another account without having
> problems with postfix running smoothly?

Wietse:
> I recommend forwarding all the system accounts to a real
> user: root, bin, daemon, uucp, postfix, and so on.

> Fritz Mesedilla:
> Thank you Wietse!
> I plan to forward all postfix mail to my own account so I can filter them.
> Is this what you mean?

Are you a real user?

> By the way, my account is not with the postfix server itself, it is on ano
>-ther mail server behind the postfix mail relay for security purposes.

If you manage multiple machines then it quickly becomes unpractical
to leave the mail on each box.

        Wietse

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