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  • hmm, does [email protected], /root/mailbox work on ubuntu? it goes to the first address but not the local mailbox for root, even after running newaliases. I also tried /var/mail/root without success...
    – cwd
    Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 1:37
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    @cwd It does for Postfix. Hmm, I think recent versions of Ubuntu install a limited MTA which doesn't do any local delivery in the default desktop installation. Older Ubuntu releases or server installations install Postfix by default, and Postfix does support my examples. Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 10:07
  • Thanks. I think root's .forward file may have been overriding the multiple addresses I had in the alias file. It's working now, thanks for your help :)
    – cwd
    Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 14:20
  • What permissions should the file have? Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 21:59
  • @ThomasWeller Which file? /etc/aliases and ~/.forward are usually 644, though I think 600 works with most MTAs. Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 22:09