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Re: Struggling with Postfix configuration



On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:14:31AM +0000, Alan Chandler said
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:39 pm, you wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:23:54PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > I was hoping that mail to xxx@kanger.home gets delivered locally, but it
> > > seems to being sent via the default transport (which is set to deliver to
> > > the smtp server of my ISP)
> > >
> > > ACTUALLY I have an entry in /etc/aliases
> >
> > But do you tell postfix to look in /etc/aliases?
> >
> > in /etc/postfix/main.cf
> > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> 
> Yes - thats there in my main.cf
> 
> But it didn't even get to recognise the xxx@kanger.home as a local address
> 
> Is it something different that mydestination that determines that?

You need to run "postmap /etc/aliases" or "newaliases" after changing
that file.  Or any other that postfix uses as a hash: directive.

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