On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:14:54AM +0200, Finzel, Heiko wrote: > Hi, I'm currently having some trouble setting up an alias for the root user > on several Redhat machines. > > Although I the alias was set using newaliases and postalias and although > postmap -q is telling me the alias is ok, postfix keeps sending root mails to > "root@##MYORIGIN##". > > The following entry was added to the default entries (postmaster: root > etc.) of the /etc/aliases: > > root: xxxx-ad...@abcd.de > > It was mapped with "newaliases"/" postalias" and postfix was > reloaded/restarted, then it was tested with "postmap -q root > hash:/etc/aliases". But if the system is now actually sending mail to root > (for example cron, but also mail send via "mailx"), it will still go to > "root@##MYORIGIN##" and not to the one listed in /etc/aliases. > > >From the logs: > > May 26 15:15:52 ##### postfix/qmgr[22268]: 5B001895D: from=<root@##MYORIGIN## > >, size=453, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > May 26 15:15:52 ##### postfix/smtp[22736]: 5B001895D: to=<root@##MYORIGIN##>, > orig_to=<root>, relay=mail. ##MYORIGIN## [###.###.###.###]:25, delay=0.28, > delays=0.11/0.01/0.07/0.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Message accepted for > delivery)
I think we're missing the rest of the log. This shows the mail being accepted, but not where it's being delivered to. The alias processing happens after that. -- The plural of datum is not "facts". A collection of facts is not "knowledge".
