[BlueOnyx:26369] Re: Duplication of email delivery based on /etc/mail/aliases

[Larry Smith]

Chad,

  Hmmm, how about try doing the same thing via the .forward
instead of via the aliases and see if it still does the dupes.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

On Fri July 28 2023 08:56, Chad Bersche via Blueonyx wrote:
> Since my switch to Postfix, just a few days ago, I've noticed that, for
> some odd reason, I'm now getting two emails, rather than one based on
> entries in my aliases file.
>
> My /etc/mail/aliases contains the following line:
>
> bjb:    bjb, chadb
>
> I have a dedicated account for my elderly mother where she gets her
> ebills sent to.  To make sure none are missed, I send a copy also to my
> own account, with her knowledge.  This had been working flawlessly using
> Sendmail: each account would get a (single) copy of each email sent to
> that account.
>
> I switched to Postfix earlier this week, and since then, I get two
> emails delivered to the chadb account, but still only a single one to
> the bjb account.  I suspect this has something to do with the different
> way that Postfix handles determining if there are duplicates in a
> delivery vs Sendmail, but I'm at a bit of a loss to figure out if
> there's any way for me to stop this from happening.  It's not a huge
> deal, but it's making duplicates that aren't needed.
>
> Any mitigation suggestions are much appreciated!
>
>    -- Chad
>
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