On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:16:38PM -0500, Chip Olson wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> I have Postfix set up with procmail as a local delivery agent, with
> postmaster etc. aliases pointing to root and a root alias pointing to
> me. Mail to regular users works fine, but mail to root was seeming to
> fall into a black hole, until I found it in /var/spool/mail/nobody.
> According to the log, Postfix received the mesage just fine and passed
> it off to procmail, still as user root. What horribly obvious thing am
> I missing? An exerpt from my maillog file follows, along with my main.cf
> and aliases files.

Postfix doesn't run procmail as root, but as nobody instead of root.
Ergo, the mail goes to nobody.

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