whether sendmail.imap.pop3 can not get mail with root account?

[frederick van targero]

i can use accounts to get email with pop3 other than root.
it is default?

frederick

[Stefan Marquardt_1]

Yes.
I don't know a option to disable this.
Put a file .forward in the root home directory.

[Mark Fenton]

Depends.

There are some pop3 packages that refuse connection from root, or don't allow retrieving email for users with UID < 100 or some such.

How to override depends on the package. More detail needed at this point.

Mark

[Steven E. Protter]

try qmail

Everyone I talk to likes it.

[Bill Thorsteinson · Accepted solution]

It is generally recommmended not to allow root to receive
mail. If your mail tools break, you have given someone
root access.

Add an alias for root to /etc/aliases. If necessary,
create an account to receive roots mail such as sysadmin.

root: sysadmin

Use your favorite client to fetch root's mail from the
alias account.

You can forward your mail to another system, but you should
check for mail loops, and have a local email account on
each server. fetchmail can be used to reach out and gather
all the undeliverable mail to
a single server.