Antony wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed RH9 with postfix-2.0.13-3.rh9. Postfix is happily
> routing mail to individual users when collected using fetchmail (with
> procmail and spamassassin), however mail to root is going to
> /var/spool/mail/postfix rather than the user I specified in /etc/aliases
> (antony).
>
> In /etc/aliases I have specified "root: antony". There were no entries
> in here for a user called postfix, so I guess Postfix doesn't know what
> to do with mail addressed to root and it has to go somewhere. I've
> tried adding "postfix: antony" to the file but that didn't help. Local
> mail to other users is routing fine. After modifying /etc/aliases I
> have ran "newaliases" and reloaded Postfix.
>
> I have RH9 running on another machine with Postfix and mail to root is
> being sent to the correct user, however I cannot see what is different
> in the configs which would cause this one not to route the mail to the
> correct. Apart from this small inconvenience Postfix is working fine as
> far I am know.
>
> I didn't get too much joy with Google or the Postfix man/FAQs/website
> :(
>
> Any suggestions welcome, I pretty new to this but will fiddle with it
> until it works (it's only a test machine) as I'm bound to learn
> something :)
>
> HAND

Looks like you made the required changes and forgot to run newaliases
Tom


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