[BlueOnyx:03925] Re: Email user alias problem

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 19:21 -0600, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
> wrote:
>> I'm having a peculiar issue with a customer system.
>>
>> Sending emails to user aliases on a domain are not functioning.
>>
>> For instance, I have username jblow on www.domain.tld and an email alias
>> of joeblow.   Sending to jblow at domain.tld will work fine.  Sending to
>> joeblow at domain.tld always results in User Unknown.
>>
>> I've played the game of pulling out the aliases, saving, then putting
>> the aliases back in and saving again.   I've checked
>> /etc/mail/virtusertable and everything looks good.
>>
>> The only thing non-stock with this box is it's running Mailman, so it
>> has the extra aliases file defined in sendmail.mc.
>>
>> makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db <  /etc/mail/virtusertable works
>> just fine with no errors.
>>
>> Can somebody help with what I'm missing?
> 
> Maybe look at the aliases file
> and maybe execute newaliases

/etc/mail/aliases looks pretty normal.

# newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases: 78 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 789 bytes total
/etc/mail/aliases.mailman: 191 aliases, longest 80 bytes, 11781 bytes total

Of course, it's /etc/mail/virtusertable where the user aliases go, and 
the aliases are clearly loaded in there.  But for whatever reason, they 
just seem to be ignored.

Very odd.
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