On 02-Feb-2002 Sagi Bashari wrote: > Hi, > > Check your aliases file. Root is probably an alias to nobody. Mandrake comes > with postfix by default (I think), so the aliases file is usually > /etc/postfix/aliases.
1 - As I wrote in my original post, I already checked that and in fact there is an alias from nobody to root and not the other way. 2 - After getting you message, I compared the alias file on my machine to my friends - they're both the same, so the alias file is not the problem - on my box root gets mail but on my friend's he doesn't. Both are Mandrake 8.1. 3 - I tried two other experiments and found: a- adding an alias from one user to another does work. The following line in the alias file ** yossi: amit** causes all of yossi's mail to go to amit. b- mail sent to a non-existant user goes to nobody (as would be expected). But none of this explains why: 1 - mail to root goes to nobody 2 - despite the alias, root doesn't get mail from nobody. These may be seperate problems, but both result in root not getting mail. //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 02-Feb-2002 Time: 21:04:45 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 8.1 machine //------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
