On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:17:54PM -0800, Chris Campbell wrote:
> It seems strange that qmail wouldn't deliver to localhost, but if that's
> true then what effect should modifying ~alias files have?
Say what?
> I've tried setting the values of .qmail-root, .qmail-postmaster and
> .qmail-mailer-daemon to "root" and "&chris", neither of which settings
> seemed to make any difference.
"root" won't work, since qmail-local will never run as root; that's the reason
you have to create ~alias/.qmail-root, so that mail sent to root can be
delivered. But &chris should work, assuming mail to chris is deliverable.
> The reason I'm pursuing this is that there is at least one system
> utility (ntpdate called from a cron job) that periodically mails status
> reports to root, and they're currently dissappearing into the ether.
No they're not. There will be some trace in the logs.
What's in control/locals?
Chris
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