QMail help

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

I'm looking for some QMail help.  I'm not particularly experienced with QMail 
and assumed it wouldn't be too difficult to figure out since it's supposed to 
be so much like Sendmail.  I was wrong.

At this point, I can't get a simple alias to work right and I'm hoping someone 
can point me in the right direction here.

I have an alias for root that works fine.  That's controlled by the 
file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root and mail to root gets forwarded without a 
problem.

I have an alias for commentsarchive.  That's controlled by the 
file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-commentsarchive and any mail to that address 
gets bounced with "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1)"

The permissions on both files are identical.  I swear I had the new one 
working once, and it stopped without me changing anything.  If I run the 
qmail-getpw program on the commentsarchive address, it correctly resolves 
to /var/qmail/alias-commentsarchive too.

Anyway, if this sounds familiar to anyone, I'd appreciate a pointer.  And if 
anyone knows a good tutorial for QMail, that would be nice too.  It seems I 
can never find useful documentation for djb code.
-N