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Subject: Re: Periodic Emails are not coming
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Abid Saigol wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming 
> from one of my servers.  There were no changes made of the system, 
> except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share.  
> These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount.  I 
> have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the 
> mails to have stopped.  Any help and guidance will be greatly 
> appreciated.  Here are some of the relevant files:
Have you inadvertently aliased the root user to another user?  Or 
perhaps you deleted an alias and should be looking in the "root" mailbox? 

I have virtual mail setup on my systems and I lost periodic emails as 
well until I configured postfix correctly to consider my local machine's 
hostname as an acceptable recipient.  I now alias root to the virtual 
user I want to receive these emails.

Tom Veldhouse