Change email address for user 'root'

[cerebrum]

Currently my VPS is configured such that email that is sent to system user root will confuse the mail server and never get anywhere. The qmail logs will show

qmail: 1210614926.426204 delivery 13085: failure: Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#
5.4.6)/

Now, I could fix that manually because I know how Qmail works. However, I'm a bit concerned that I might break Plesk that way and therefore would prefer setting an alias (for the domain or the local user root) via Plesk. But how do I do that? I looked everywhere and couldn't find it.

Any hints?

 

[breun]

Plesk writes the Plesk admin e-mail address to /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root. Changing the address in Plesk will rewrite this alias.

However, sending mail to root doesn't work, since root is expanded to root@$HOSTNAME and Plesk doesn't set $HOSTNAME in /var/qmail/control/locals (which I believe is a bug), so the message is rejected.