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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