On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. > It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". > This has happened with other source files as well.
At some point base-passwd got rid of the assignments for qmail users that qmail depended on; coincident to that change was a new qmail-src package that added its own users for qmail. Check that you are using the latest qmail-src.