Re: Mail to root going to (user:)postfix instead of specified user

Antony wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed RH9 with postfix-2.0.13-3.rh9. Postfix is happily
> routing mail to individual users when collected using fetchmail (with
> procmail and spamassassin), however mail to root is going to
> /var/spool/mail/postfix rather than the user I specified in /etc/aliases
> (antony).
>
> In /etc/aliases I have specified "root: antony". There were no entries
> in here for a user called postfix, so I guess Postfix doesn't know what
> to do with mail addressed to root and it has to go somewhere. I've
> tried adding "postfix: antony" to the file but that didn't help. Local
> mail to other users is routing fine. After modifying /etc/aliases I
> have ran "newaliases" and reloaded Postfix.
>
> I have RH9 running on another machine with Postfix and mail to root is
> being sent to the correct user, however I cannot see what is different
> in the configs which would cause this one not to route the mail to the
> correct. Apart from this small inconvenience Postfix is working fine as
> far I am know.
>
> I didn't get too much joy with Google or the Postfix man/FAQs/website
> :(
>
> Any suggestions welcome, I pretty new to this but will fiddle with it
> until it works (it's only a test machine) as I'm bound to learn
> something :)
>
> HAND

Looks like you made the required changes and forgot to run newaliases
Tom


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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 at 18:57:36, Thomas Spuhler <spuhler@dakotacom.net>
writes
>Antony wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed RH9 with postfix-2.0.13-3.rh9. Postfix is happily
>> routing mail to individual users when collected using fetchmail (with
>> procmail and spamassassin), however mail to root is going to
>> /var/spool/mail/postfix rather than the user I specified in /etc/aliases
>> (antony).
>>
>> In /etc/aliases I have specified "root: antony". There were no entries
>> in here for a user called postfix, so I guess Postfix doesn't know what
>> to do with mail addressed to root and it has to go somewhere. I've
>> tried adding "postfix: antony" to the file but that didn't help. Local
>> mail to other users is routing fine. After modifying /etc/aliases I
>> have ran "newaliases" and reloaded Postfix.
>>
>> I have RH9 running on another machine with Postfix and mail to root is
>> being sent to the correct user, however I cannot see what is different
>> in the configs which would cause this one not to route the mail to the
>> correct. Apart from this small inconvenience Postfix is working fine as
>> far I am know.
>>
>> I didn't get too much joy with Google or the Postfix man/FAQs/website
>> :(
>>
>> Any suggestions welcome, I pretty new to this but will fiddle with it
>> until it works (it's only a test machine) as I'm bound to learn
>> something :)
>>
>> HAND
>
>Looks like you made the required changes and forgot to run newaliases
>Tom
>
I did run newaliases (see above). I have just ran newaliases and
reloaded postfix to make sure and tested - still the same problem. I
might remove the rpm and compile it from the source code just for the
sake of it.
--
Antony

Il giorno Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ant così ha scritto:

|On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 at 18:57:36, Thomas Spuhler <spuhler@dakotacom.net>
|writes
|>Looks like you made the required changes and forgot to run newaliases
|>Tom
|>
|I did run newaliases (see above). I have just ran newaliases and
|reloaded postfix to make sure and tested - still the same problem. I
|might remove the rpm and compile it from the source code just for the
|sake of it.
|

Make sure you specified the right file_format:file in main.cf. To check
this, please do the following:

aselli@aselli ~$ grep ^alias_maps /etc/postfix/main.cf
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

aselli@aselli ~$ ls /etc/aliases*
/etc/aliases /etc/aliases.db



Sandro


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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 at 11:38:34, Alessandro Selli
<adoro.lo.spam@libero.it> writes
>Il giorno Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ant così ha scritto:
>
>|On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 at 18:57:36, Thomas Spuhler <spuhler@dakotacom.net>
>|writes
>|>Looks like you made the required changes and forgot to run newaliases
>|>Tom
>|>
>|I did run newaliases (see above). I have just ran newaliases and
>|reloaded postfix to make sure and tested - still the same problem. I
>|might remove the rpm and compile it from the source code just for the
>|sake of it.
>|
>
> Make sure you specified the right file_format:file in main.cf. To check
>this, please do the following:
>
>aselli@aselli ~$ grep ^alias_maps /etc/postfix/main.cf
>alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
>
>aselli@aselli ~$ ls /etc/aliases*
>/etc/aliases /etc/aliases.db
>
>
>
> Sandro
>
>
Thanks Sandro, I've found it now thanks to your help.

[root@server root]# grep ^alias_maps /etc/postfix/main.cf
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases

I was changing /etc/aliases rather than this one. Changed
/etc/postfix/aliases, ran newaliases and reloaded Postfix and it's now
working fine :)
--
Antony