root mailboxes and aliasing (was: Re: cvt_cyrusdb_all)

[Simon Matter]

> 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.

That's what I'm normally using too. But I've been told that single
instance store _only_ works when using local_transport.

Simon

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