qmail root user

fisherbln · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 49

I'm trying to send mail to the root user on my system, but it always returns the mail. here is the relevant error in the qmail logs:

adaptr · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:14 am Post subject:

fisherbln · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 49

This setup was done exactly how it says to do it in the qmail setup howto found at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
When I initially setup, I could send things to root locally with the little test that the howto shows, but I've never tried to just send something to root to see if it actually works. The files /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-* all contain "brian".
No, root does not have a maildir because no mail is sent to root, I'm trying to alias it to the account brian! brian account does have a maildir that works perfectly.
I am sending the mail to root@abc.com, I'm not sure why that section of the log says differently, maybe the way it is logged??
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adaptr · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:07 am Post subject:

Definitely not the way it is logged - believe that.
Mail server logs will always tell you exactly what the sender and recipient envelopes said - or else what use are they ?
In fact, since mail processors may cause the envelope to be changed multiple times, the only guaranteed way to find out what the original envelope was, is to check the mail server logs...

Methiks there is still somehow a config error somewhere.

EDIT: look at the filesizes - is that a LF or an extra space in the qmail-root alias file ?
If it's a space - kablooey ;-)

The log file anomaly is caused by qmail trying to expand the address to something - anything! - it can deliver, but it fails.

'Nother EDIT: it's way smarter to set all other administrative aliases to root, since this means that if you need to change the root alias you will only have to do so once, not 53 gazillion times...
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fisherbln · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 49

thank you for suggestion on changing everything to root so I can just change it once

Now, if I can just get the friggin aliases to work!!! They are being completely ignored from what I can tell... all of them. There is nothing extra in the files, just the username I want to alias them to. The funny thing is, if I send to postmaster, it will go though, however, I just discovered that those mails are being saved in a maildir that exists for postmaster in /var/vpopmail/domains/bbox.us/postmaster/
So, this further leads me to believe that my aliases are being ignored. I thought for a second that it was just emails I was sending non-locally to these addresses that hand problems, but even if I do a qmail-inject postmaster (or root for that matter), I get the same issue. Root is undeliverable and postmaster goes to that maildir I didn't even know existed until now.
Is there a setting somewhere that turned off aliases???? I have never been this frustrated with linux in the 8 years I've been using it!
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adaptr · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

Most MTA's require you to run a command to update aliases when they've been changed...
I have little experience with qmail, but my first thought would be that you simply have to run qmail's equivalent of newaliases.
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