[BlueOnyx:07437] Re: weird email aliasing glitch

[Christoph Schneeberger]

Roy Urick wrote:
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> We are experiencing an issue with our aliases on our BO box that is 
> bizarre.
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> We tried setting  up a mailbox to split and forward email to two users 
> as a mini distribution list.
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> We created a dummy user “sales” and then set the email to forward to two 
> email accounts. (we have dozens of these on the server that work fine)
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> When we send email to sales@ it goes to the postmaster account instead 
> of being forwarded to the two destination accounts specified in the 
> forwarding field. If I delete the account and add the “sales” alias to 
> one of the two destination mailboxes, it goes right through to that user.
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> Any ideas on where to start looking?
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> I’ve tried resetting the virtusertable, etc. with no luck.
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Try removing sales from /etc/mail/aliases, run newaliases and retry.
There is a fix for this pending for release.

Cheers,
Christoph