root's mail

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 11:41 -0800, Damien Hull wrote:
> I'm trying to forward roots mail to an external address and it's not
> working. Here's what I have.
> 
> 
>      1. Ubuntu 10.04 server
>      2. Postfix
>      3. Aliases file configured with root: user at example.com
> Mail is hosted on Google which gets the email. However, the mail ends
> up in the spam folder saying that it was trying to deliver it to
> root at example.com. It should deliver it to user at example.com.

I'd guess the SPAM filter is comparing the 'To:' line in the message
header with the envelope address which are different and flagging the
message as SPAM.  There should be a way to adjust the filter to allow
the email to pass the SPAM test.


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