Hello there,

I just installed qmail on a Debian Linux 2.2-system.
Basically everything works fine, but I get the
following error in my syslog, when I try to send a mail
to useralias@domain instead of username@domain:

qmail: 976296098.713553 delivery 32: deferral:
fastforward:_fatal:_unable_to_exec_qq_(#4.3.0)/

For an example: I have the local user "rush", and I want mails addressed to 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to be dropped to /home/rush/Maildir.

So I added a line 
rush.limbaugh: rush

to my /etc/aliases and ran "newaliases".

Sending mail directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" works perfectly, but when I try to send 
something to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the mail is not delivered and I get the 
above message in my syslog. Those mails are not bounced, they are just not delivered 
and are lost.

The strange thing is that it does work for other aliases like postmaster,
operator, mail-daemon etc. Mails sent to those are
delivered properly to root/to the address specified in
.qmail-root. But when I add other lines, it won't
work, even when I set up another alias for root.

When I run "printforward < /etc/aliases.cdb | more",
everything looks just fine. All the new aliases are
there, all entries are correct, everything seems just
fine. 

Same when I try "env DEFAULT=rush.limbaugh HOST=mydomain fastforward -nd 
/etc/aliases.cdb":
It gives me the correct username "rush" for the alias I used, and the correct complete 
email-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where the mail is supposed to go to.

Restarting qmail or rebooting the entire machine
didn't help, as didn't re-installing everything.

I've been looking all over, but I can't find anything
about that particular error message...

I'm sure I just made a tiny, silly mistake somewhere,
but I've been at it for hours and can't find it...

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Greetings,
Sean

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