RE: [cobalt-users] postmaster acct

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Chip Thero wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Long time list lurker, first time posting. I have a Raq 3i and I can send
> mail to postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx I can not tell where it is going. I did not
> set up a postmaster account and it will not let me set one up.

postmaster is a required account for sendmail, and should work
serverwide...
It's used as a last resort for email's that absolutly can not be delivered
and can't be returned (for exable if someone sends a email with a bad
address, and a undeliverable return address)

generally it will either be forwarded to root, or go nowhere at all,
look in /var/spool/mail/ for postmaster , if it's there then that's where
your mail went...
or telnet to the machine and check root's mail...

(imho, forwarding postmaster is a really bad idea...)