Thanks a lot to everyone for suggestions. Couple of questions:
1. I noticed that postfix restarts the appropriate daemons/programs
(smtpd/local) whenever it notices changes in the aliases files. How does it
determine that (based on file's attributes etc.)??
2. Does postfix load the alias
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Thanks for the response.
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So, be sure that you don't have u...@domain forms in $alias_maps.
Thanks. Every line in the alias files defined in $alias_maps is of the
following form:
USER: u...@subx.domain.com
We are not using the form u...@domain for alias entries (instead just
USER). I would like to inform again that
Is the alias table generated dynamically? It is possible that it's not
readable (still being written) at the time the lookup happens?
Yes, correct. All the alias files are generated using perl scripts, which
run periodically. The scripts actually generate temporary alias files (while
