that looks like either you or the root user has a .forward file in their home directory that isn't actually a forwarding file, but some sort of script.

It looks from the scraps you are seeing as if the file has something to do with a fax subsystem config file, if that helps.

Check both home directories for .forward files, and check the postfix main.cf to see which alias files its using, and what its behaviour is set to be when it encounters a .forward file.

TD

On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 16:08, Barry Samuels wrote:

I have just replaced Exim with Postfix. There are a few things not yet working as I want them but there is also one oddity.

Whenever the system sends an internal mail to root, which is then re-directed to me as a user, it tries to send the same email to a number of non-existant users:

<"$h_subject:contains"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "$h_subject:contains"

endif@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "endif"

<"fax stats"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "fax stats"

then@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "then"

if@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "if"

elif@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "elif"

finish@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "finish"

<"facsimile received"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "facsimile received"

error_message@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "error_message"

<"facsimile not received"@machine1.mynetwork>: unknown user: "facsimile not received"

save@machine1.mynetwork: unknown user: "save"

These users are obviously rubbish but I have no idea where it is finding this stuff.

This problem does not occur with emails to or from the internet.

Some ideas as to where to look would be appreciated.

Barry Samuels

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