Adam D . McKenna writes:
> OK, I figured it out (sort of).
>
> ~alias/.qmail-postmaster was forwarding to root..
>
> When I changed it to adam-postmaster, mail to root started working again.
>
> Anyone have an idea why this happened?
Hahahahah! This is not to laugh at you, but to laugh at *us*. I got
bitten by that exact problem years ago. The instructions tell you to
create an empty .qmail-root, .qmail-mailer-daemon, and
.qmail-postmaster, all in ~alias. This is all very nice, but doesn't
help the newbie a bit.
You see, the natural idea is to think "because ~alias has a Mailbox,
and mail to root@ (etc) is being delivered into it, mail is being
forwarded into it, so if I forward the mail elsewhere, it'll go
there."
It won't. Alias is a special user -- it controls all non-deliverable
mail directly, just by virtue of having a .qmail file in its home
directory. So, instead of the mail being *forwarded* to alias, the
mail is being directly stuffed into alias's Mailbox. If you want
alias's mail forwarded to some other user, you need to eschew empty
~alias/.qmail-* files. Either forward the mail to alias, and forward
alias's mail elsewhere, or forward the mail directly to the desired
user.
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