Russ,
The problem was that there was stuff in /var/qmail/users/assign that I didn't
put there.. It had nothing to do with anything in ~alias..
--Adam
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 05:11:54PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> 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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