Not getting root's mail - Postfix

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 8/23/05, William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm.  When it gets sent to the smarthost, what is the address?
To me it looks like the aliases file is just ignored completely.
Is it in the right place?  Has a crucial symlink vanished?  Did
the permissions change?
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