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Well unless you rebuild the aliases database file it won't make any difference either way.

Code:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bi

However, what results did you have with grepping for root in aliases? If root isn't in /etc/aliases then adding it probably won't change anything.

Hmm, did you check root's home directory to see if there's a .forward file and/or a .procmailrc file? Maybe it's being forwarded somewhere.

Carl

I found only this and I've deleted:

Code:

ext:~# cat .forward
| mailx linux@localhost

but still doesn't work.

Code:

ext:/# grep root /etc/aliases
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root

I've done:

Code:

ext:~# dpkg-reconfigure postfix

and now it seems to work.

p.s
thanks a lot !

Sure, happy to help. I'd be curious as to where all those test messages actually went to. Did you check the linux account's /var/mail/linux mailbox? Either the test messages you've been sending are there or there's a redirect in /etc/mail/aliases or a .forward file that's sending the messages somewhere else.

Basically I hate just pressing that magic "Easy" button and having it work. I'd hunt down where the messages went and then why reconfiguring postfix corrected the problem. Did you rebuild the /etc/aliases file with the sendmail command I used earlier? Perhaps root was being redirected in /etc/aliases and the database wasn't rebuilt after the correction and the postfix reconfiguration also rebuilt the /etc/aliases database file.

See what I mean? I hate "Easy" buttons

Carl

I sent a lot of test mails to the root user, but couldn't find them in /var/mail/linux.

I cannot understand,
in a .forward file was: linux@localhost, but linux@localhost didn't get any root mails.

perhaps they were sent to the nirwana...

and I couldn't send any mails from outside to the root user. all mails to the root were denied.

now it works well.