linux-l: qmail Problem

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

aus life with qmail:
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G. Gotchas
These frequently cause problem for qmail newbies.

G.1. qmail doesn't deliver mail to superusers.
To prevent the possibility of qmail-local running commands as a privileged
user, qmail ignores all users whose UID is 0. This is documented in the
qmail-getpw man page.

That doesn't mean qmail won't deliver to root, it just means that such a
delivery will have to be handled by a non-privileged user. Typically, one
creates an alias for root by populating ~alias/.qmail-root.
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