unable to receive local user mails

[Anonymous]

ever since qmail installation, i can no longer receive mail in root or any shell accounts that i usually get when i run the program "at" for example. virtual accounts are working fine. able to send and receive. thanks for any help.

[Rhun Draco]

By default, qmail will not deliver email to root. This is a security measure and you should not change it. Look at the qmail documentation at http://cr.yp.to, http://www.qmail.org, and http://www.lifewithqmail.org. Good stuff.

If you followed the qmailrocks tutorial closely, local delivery should work fine. Look into .qmail (that is, dot-qmail) files, the /var/qmail/alias and /var/qmail/users directories.

For example, I have setup aliases in /var/qmail/alias so that any root mail comes straight to my shell account's mailbox. I set up multiple mailboxes and just use mutt -f to access them when I see that mail is waiting.