Better Root Email Management

[warmerdam]

Shawn writes:
> On average i get 50 root emails a day. Mostly from cron.  Definitely
> archiving it would be good. we could create a mailing list for it and
> have all the email sent to the list.

I (Frank) am somewhat dubious about the security of having root email being distributed by a mailman list. I'm also not keen on being attached to this firehose. What I would like to suggest to start is that we archive the root email locally on the machine in a known location, and that some effort be made to tune down the volume of email (by making cron scripts un-noisy for instance) so Shawn isn't so overwhelmed.

[warmerdam]

Guys,

I've tried modifying the root: alias in /etc/aliases to route a copy of root email to /var/mail/root, but the /var/log/maillog reports some sort of permission error, even when the file has "mail group" rw permissions.

I was able to get it archiving by setting things to world rw, but that seems a bit dangerous for root email.

Any thoughts on what is going wrong?

​http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/84

[sbarnes]

this is puzzling. I've looked and i don't see anything amiss. i'll continue to keep looking into this.

shawn