problem in new user "www"

[tsangkc99]

I created a new user "www". I can login with this user. I can send emails (using sendmail) from this user to other users.

But this user cannot receive any email. All emails sent to "www" will go to "root" mailbox.

Is "www" a special account under sendmail that all emails will be re-directed to "root"?

[Rubberman]

It should depend upon how your mail system is configured. It may be that way by default.

[Lazydog]

Check /etc/aliases This is a file that is use to create the aliases.db file which is looked at by the mailing agent to determin if mail is to be rerouted to another user.

I see in mine that www is rerouted to webmaster and webmaster is rerouted to root.

$  cat aliases | grep www
www:            webmaster


$  cat aliases | grep webmaster
www:            webmaster
webmaster:      root

After you make changes to this file you need to run run newaliases to update the db.