On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:48:27PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 05:59:16PM -0700, Jeremiah Rothschild wrote: > > > So anyone should be able to easily reproduce this. > > > > * Fresh CentOS 8.4 install > > * Choose "Minimal" base environment > > * Defaults for everything else > > You can debug further with: > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#auto_trace > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#screen > > > # yum -y update > > # yum -y install postfix mailx > > # systemctl start postfix > > # echo "somealias: /tmp/somefile" >> /etc/aliases && newaliases > > # echo "test" | mail somealias@localhost > > # ls /tmp/somefile > > The upstream Postfix distribution does not claim to have delivered > messages to a file without delivering them to that file. If your > vendor modified Postfix, or your OS discards writes for security > reasons, or ... that's not a result of upstream Postfix behaviour.
I believe you. I should have mentioned that this used to work. So it probably is OS-related rather than Postfix-specific. Unfortunately, I don't have enough data to correlate it to any particular package update or other event. > On my machine (latest snapshot, but the local(8) mailbox delivery code > has not changed in ages): > > $ postconf mail_version > mail_version = 3.7-20210605 > > $ postmap -q bogusalias $(postconf -xh alias_maps) > /tmp/bogusalias > > Jun 16 22:40:02 amnesiac postfix/pickup[8135]: B4A3FC7196: uid=0 > from=<...@...> > Jun 16 22:40:02 amnesiac postfix/cleanup[9089]: B4A3FC7196: > message-id=<20210617024002.B4A3FC7196@amnesiac.local> > Jun 16 22:40:02 amnesiac postfix/qmgr[76221]: B4A3FC7196: from=<...@...>, > size=295, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Jun 16 22:40:02 amnesiac postfix/local[9091]: B4A3FC7196: > to=<bogusalias@amnesiac.local>, relay=local, delay=0.06, > delays=0.04/0.02/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to file: > /tmp/bogusalias) > Jun 16 22:40:02 amnesiac postfix/qmgr[76221]: B4A3FC7196: removed > > $ cat /tmp/bogusalias > From ...@... Wed Jun 16 22:40:02 2021 > Return-Path: <...@...> > X-Original-To: bogusalias@amnesiac.local > Delivered-To: bogusalias@amnesiac.local > Received: by amnesiac.local (Postfix, from userid 0) > id B4A3FC7196; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:40:02 -0400 (EDT) > To: bogusalias@amnesiac.local > From: ...@... > Subject: test > Message-Id: <20210617024002.B4A3FC7196@amnesiac.local> > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:40:02 -0400 (EDT) > > hi > > -- > Viktor.
