SOLVED-Not getting root's mail - Postfix

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>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?

The problem was that the value of /etc/mailname had changed, and no
longer pointed somewhere that Postfix recognized as local.  Once I fixed
that and restarted Postfix (necessary) it worked again.  Thanks for the
help.
-- 

yours,

William

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