Not getting root's mail - Postfix

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:23:40AM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>On 8/22/05, William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Up until recently, I would get mail destined for root, presumably
>> because in /etc/aliases I had lines like:
>> 
>> postmaster: $me
>> root:       $me
>> 
>> Now, after a reinstall, but using the same configuration, I no longer
>> get root's mail.  A visit to /var/log/mail.log shows me that mail for
>> root is getting forwarded to my defined smarthost.  I'm using Postfix
>> version 2.2.4-1.  Any have any ideas?
>
>I use Exim not Postfix but:
>
>does postmaster behave the same way?

Yes.

>Is "me" a real configuration variable or just your way of guarding
>your privacy here?

Just a privacy measure - the file itself uses my actual login.
-- 

yours,

William

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