sendmail and mbox permissions

[J65nko BSD]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:23:29 +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii <emin at mccme.ru> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the mail,
> mailbox's (/var/mail/root) permission bits has been setted to
> 600. Who and how it does? Can I change this behavior?
> 
> --
For security reasons, the "root" account should not receice any mail.
One of sendmail's alternatives "qmail" will even NEVER send any mail
to the root account.

Enter an alias for root in "/etc/mail/aliases" and run the "newaliases" command.