Try putting a "\" in front of root. I was doing something similar in a
forward file, & that worked for me.
Shawn Lenhardt
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Christopher Fisk wrote:
> >i have RedHat 5.0
> >I have ob with /etc/aliases
> >
> >i put something like this:
> >security: root, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >I have done a newaliases
> >
> >and when I mail to security, only [EMAIL PROTECTED] receive the message ... not
>root ...
>
> Just curious but are you mailing FROM root? Aliases will not send the
> message back to the person who sent it even if they are on the recieve
> list for that alias.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Chris Fisk
>
>
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