Hmm. This doesn't seem to be the root of the issue. When I type 'mail
chris' at the command line to write myself a message, qmail does the
same thing as when I try to mail root: It attempts to send it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] This has nothing to do with aliases. What I
would expect is that sending mail like this to users with no host name
specified, qmail should attempt to deliver to said user locally, if
possible. Is there a way to make this happen?
Thanks,
--Chris
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:33:47PM -0800, Mark Lane wrote:
> Sorry It delivers to localhost fine, I meant to say root on the localhost.
> There should be a forward to reroute mail to root.
> "* root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate
> mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root,
> those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the
> postmaster.) Set up an alias for root in ~alias/.qmail-root. .qmail
> files are similar to .forward files, but beware that they are strictly
> line-oriented---see dot-qmail.0 for details."
>
> This is from the INSTALL.alias file in the qmail directory.
>
> Normally I just follow the minimal instructions in the INSTALL file.
>
> 5. Read INSTALL.alias. Minimal survival command:
> # (cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon
> .qmail-root)
> # chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail*
