In qmail you never have a mailbox for root
You may read dot-qmail


> 
> 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.
 
> What I want is to forward mail for root to another user.

This is exactly the concept of qmail. Forward mails for
root to another account, which could be found in various
documents.

Tom


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