On Wed, 7 May 2003 18:07:44 +0200
"Marc Revenga Esquinas" <mrevenga@silver.udg.es> wrote:

> I have lost a lot of time with this problem and I will very pleased if
> someone can help me.
> 
> I have installed postfix and cyrus on my computer. So, I have a SMTP
> and POP3/IMAP servers. They are running perfectly. Now I want to
> redirect the mail from a user(john) to my account(erik) like the root
> account. They are at the same machine.
> 
> I have modified the /etc/aliases file and I have added this line:
> 
> john:    erik
> 
> Then I have executed:
> 
> #postaliases /etc/aliases
> #newaliases                   (I don't know if it's needed)
> #/etc/rc.d/postfix reload
> 
> If I send a mail to john the mail is not forwaded and it arrives to
> the john mail account. I don't know why it does not work. If someone
> wants to knom my postfix configuration of aliases here you are:
> 
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> 
> I have look the /etc/aliases.db and the date has changed to a new one.
> Now the root mail is not forwaded too. If the mail account does not
> exists then a mail is returned saing that no mailbox root@domainname
> exists. Then you can see that mail is not forwaded.

The only thing I can see is:
#/etc/rc.d/postfix reload
That should be /usr/sbin/postfix reload


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