On 23 Apr 2008, at 21:16, SurgeMail Support wrote:

> surgemail-listnetwinsite.com wrote:
>> When I am trying to
>> #mail root
>> Subject: test
>> test
>> <dot>
>> CC:
>> #Failed to send message to any users
>> the msg.log shows:
>> Rejected 127.0.0.1 <rootxxxxxxx.com>
<root> 0  "mailfrom: Must  
>> contain a domain with dots if not blank"
>> Please advise. Please note that numerous packages
and daemons  
>> report errors and send logs to local root account.
>
> Hi,
>
> Unless you created the account "root" in
surgemail that it is not a  
> valid email account.  SurgeMail takes no notice of
users on the *nix  
> system.
>
> You can either create the root account in the account
section of  
> surgemail or use a redirection rule and forward emails
to root to  
> whatever account you want to view them on.
>
> Regards,
> Stuart

Hello.

I am having this problem also. I need system generated
emails  
addressed to <root> to go to memydomain.com. I can't
create an  
account or alias without including a domain name. I'm sure
this used  
to work as root would go to rootdefault.domain which I
could then  
alias.

Thanks,
John