SUMMARY: Re: SunOS 4.x mail to root is automagically sent to /dev/null

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> From: Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
> X-Organization: SBC/OC Services, L.P.
>
> On MY SunOS 4.1.1 distribution, there is no alias for root, but our
> NIS aliases map has one, so everything works well. When there's no
> alias, but the mail is to a valid username, it is delivered locally
> to /var/spool/mail. Possibly you have a "root: /dev/null" NIS alias?
>
> Please be sure to summarize back to the list; thanks.
>

The winning reply is by Mike Raffety, quoted above.

Indeed, "ypmatch root aliases" yields "/dev/null".

Thanks and sorry for the confusion. Grumble grumble... damn weird network
setup...

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