I'm working with a single 11.3 scalix system running on rhel5.
The question I have has to do with when does sendmail deliver to a users /var/spool/mail folder and when does it pass the message off to scalix to deliver to a scalix mailbox.
This scalix system is part of the ldap domain. and ldap is used for authentication.
The situation I see is that mail sent to root on that host has an /etc/aliases entry that points the scalix users account but it gets delivered to the users /var/spool mail folder.
But if I send mail to that user from the command line on the scalix server it gets delivered to the scalix folder as it should.
If that user has a .forward in their home directory on that server to point to user@domain.com all mail gets delivered to scalix as it should. I really don't want to do with for all accounts.
This system doesn't have a MX record and will most likely not have one since it will receive email directly from a mail gateway running postfix.
I'm concerned that when we go live next week new mail for users may get stuck in the spool folder. So I want to make sure that my receiving email is proper.
Cheers