Qmail doesn't use /etc/aliases unless patched to do otherwise.
Root mail would be handled by a .qmail file in ~alias
Read INSTALL.alias, and look at the man page dot-qmail.0
Basically create a .qmail-root in ~alias, and put &[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the
.qmail-root to have mail to root forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The second question I will leave to the qmail gods..
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please help newbie with 2 questions
I have read the FAQ and studied individual setup guides but I am still
stumped on these two issues:
1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran
"newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. I have
verified it is working, because I have another forward "azzy" which forwards
to "reuben" fine. Here's the /etc/aliases file:
# Mail Aliases
bin: root
daemon: root
decode: root
dumper: root
games: root
ingres: root
mailer-daemon: root
manager: root
nobody: root
operator: root
postmaster: root
system: root
toor: root
uucp: root
root: reuben
webmaster: reuben
azzy: reuben
.. any ideas?
I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll
need to forward it to another account.
2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file
will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every
conceivable host on the Internet! Can I put a wildcard in there? FWIW-- My
MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email
server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait
until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any
changes. Could this be the problem?
Thanks in advance,
-Reuben King
