Guus,
For security reasons qmail does not send mail directly
to the root account. This is in the docs and in Life With
Qmail. You need to create alias' for Postmaster, Mailer-Daemon,
and root. To do this you need to decide which user should receive
mail for those accounts (most likely yourself, eg. guus, or the name
of your system account):
echo guus > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
echo guus > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
ln -s /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
After you've done that go back and reread Life With Qmail at
www.lifewithqmail.org to find out _why_ you needed to do it.
Regards.
At 05:22 PM 6/8/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except...
>
>Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message
>
><root@mydomain>
>Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
>A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem.
>Similar, almost identical, setup.
>
>How can I create a mailbox for root?
>
>What I want is to forward mail for root to another user.
>
>Tia,
>Guus.
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