Email are distributed by postfix and not by Dovecot. Therefore, the aliases are for postfix and not for Dovecot. <br><br>Try running <br> postmap <alias file><br>to compile the aliases text file into the alias database that postfix can read. You might (though I doubt) need to reload postfix as well.<br><br>EK<br><br><b><i>William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I am using a Postfix/Dovecot setup on Debian stable, and it works just<br>fine for regular virtual users, but I am finding that mail for root and<br>postmaster, which should go to a specified address, is instead getting<br>delivered to the virtual root user.<br><br>It appears that Postfix is handing everything to Dovecot, and Dovecot<br>sees root@localdomain and delivers it to /home/vmail/localdomain/root<br>rather than the
user@localdomain that I specified in /etc/aliases.<br><br>I have been sure to run newaliases, and restart the relevant services,<br>but it is still not working. Any tips?<br><br>Thanks.<br>-- <br><br>yours,<br><br>William<br><br></blockquote><br><p>
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