root not getting system email

[Denny White]

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Can someone please help me with this.
I read where it's safer to have an
admin read root's mail than for the
root user himself. So, I did the
/etc/aliases & newaliases thing, I
tried the aliase in /etc/mail & did
a "make" there & a make restart,
tried a .forward file in roots home
directory, tried the virtusertable
& local-host-names & mailertable in
/etc/mail, & so far nothing but trouble.
Here's the type of messages I'm getting
when the system fails to relay roots
mail:

May 28 15:02:07 dualman sm-mta[2278]: j4SK270A002278:
Losing ./qfj4SK270A002278: savemail panic
May 28 15:02:06 dualman sm-mta[2277]: j4SK250A002277:
SYSERR(root): rewrite: excessive recursion (max 50),
ruleset canonify
May 28 15:02:07 dualman sm-mta[2278]: j4SK270A002278:
SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

It also says the local user cannot be found,
which I think is my screwup for whatever way
I entered the user in aliases and virtusertable.
Would it be wiser just to undo everything, and
just try using the .forward file for root?
Trying to get everything on here working right
so I can teach myself how to do a cvsup & learn
to rebuild & merge everything, but this is for
sure holding me back. Thanks for any help I can
get.





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