The config for that is in /etc/mail/aliases
run postalias ater editing the file.
If you had read the last couple of lines ater emerging ostfix you would have
seen the message, that you need to do this for the first time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Preissler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "gentoo-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] [postfix] Mails to root@ are sent to nobody@
> Hello folks,
>
> I recently merged postfix-2.0.11.
>
> Now I am missing mails, which are sent to root and via .procmailrc
> they are resent to my local user-account. This was working properly
> with sendmail. I can't use an alias "root->user", because some mails
> *must* be sent to root...
>
> Now I determined, that mails to root never arrive in that mbox, they
> are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The .procmailrc from root is never executed.
>
> I did not configure postfix very much. For my user account all is
> working properly. My mails are rewrited with [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's
> working fine ;-)) and I use SMTPAUTH on GMX, fine.
>
> So, where must I skrew up my postfix configuration, that the user
> root can get the mails again? I've already search postfix.org, but
> it seems, that that problem has never existed...
>
> [/var/log/mail/current]
> Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/pickup] 3FDC7DCE2D: uid=0 from=<root>
> Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/cleanup] 3FDC7DCE2D:
message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/qmgr] 3FDC7DCE2D: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
size=294, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Dec 2 15:13:49 [postfix/local] 3FDC7DCE2D: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
orig_to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=0, stat us=sent
("|/usr/bin/procmail")
>
> I tested it with rewriting the user root to [EMAIL PROTECTED], too.
> But - it did not help. my /root/.procmailrc should write a logfile -
> but that never happens.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
>
> Greets,
> Tom
>
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