Local mail issue. What did I do here?

[Neal Wilkinson]

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 17:24 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> You should use formail (it has a manpage and comes with the procmail
> package) to read in the mail from root's mailbox and to let it deliver
> again to your different account.
> 
> Alexander

I already have it set up in aliases to forward root mail to me. Why can
I not simply forward the current contents of roots mailbox to me? I'm
assuming the reason I don't get them now is that they were previously
sent and to hit the alias file must require a sending of mail.