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Subject: Re: root gets mail from all lists
From: Frank Bax <fbax @ sympatico . ca>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:34:02 -0400
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020420070316.032c3b40@pop6.sympatico.ca>

At 07:11 AM 20/04/02 -0400, Frank Bax wrote:
>Why does my root account get a copy of every message going through every 
>mailing list?

Because "nobody" is specified on "resend" and "nobody" is aliased to "root" 
in /etc/mail/aliases.

The majordomo docs/faq mentions aliasing nobody to /dev/null but there is 
no example.  What's the syntax for this?

Frank




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