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?

--Adam

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 12:27:00AM -0400, Adam D . McKenna wrote:
> Here's a dumb one.  Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
> 
> adam@spotted:~$ cat ~alias/.qmail-root
> adam-root
> adam@spotted:~$ cat ~adam/.qmail-root
> ./Mail/root/
> 
> I tried changing ~alias/.qmail-root to be adam-rt instead of adam-root but
> the same thing happens.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
> 
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 3 Jul 1999 04:18:47 -0000
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: failure notice
> 
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at virtual-estate.net.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line. (#5.4.6)
> 
> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
> 
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: (qmail 3654 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 1999 04:18:47 -0000
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: (qmail 3652 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jul 1999 04:18:47 -0000
> Date: 3 Jul 1999 04:18:47 -0000
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 

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