Subject: Re: postfix ignoring aliases?
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
List: current-users
Date: 12/29/2004 18:49:55
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:29:00 +1100, Daniel Carosone writes:
>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:48:01AM -0800, Simon Gerraty wrote:
>> but all mail seems to be sent to @domain, which doesn't matter for the
>> most part but root mail will annoy the sysadmins ;-)
>
>It sounds like it's not treating the mail as local, which then won't
>go through aliases.  

Which seems odd no?  Mail root should be considered local...

>It also sounds like you have something like=20
>
>myorigin =3D $mydomain

Yes, any outbound mail should have just the domain as origin.

>If that's what you want, other than for a few specific exceptions,
>list the exception in a virtual(5) map, and that map in
>virtual_alias_maps

That sounds more complicated than I'd have expected.

Does postfix have anything like sendmail -bd ?
That's always been handy for knowing what the config will do...

Thanks
--sjg