09-14-2006
Sure, happy to help. I'd be curious as to where all those test messages actually went to. Did you check the linux account's /var/mail/linux mailbox? Either the test messages you've been sending are there or there's a redirect in /etc/mail/aliases or a .forward file that's sending the messages somewhere else.
Basically I hate just pressing that magic "Easy" button and having it work. I'd hunt down where the messages went and then why reconfiguring postfix corrected the problem. Did you rebuild the /etc/aliases file with the sendmail command I used earlier? Perhaps root was being redirected in /etc/aliases and the database wasn't rebuilt after the correction and the postfix reconfiguration also rebuilt the /etc/aliases database file.
See what I mean?
I hate "Easy" buttons
Carl
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newaliases
newaliases(1M) System Administration Commands newaliases(1M)
NAME
newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
SYNOPSIS
newaliases
DESCRIPTION
newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/mail/aliases.
newaliases accepts all the flags that sendmail(1M) accepts. However, most of these flags have no effect, except for the -C option and three
of the Processing Options that can be set from a configuration file with the -o option:
-C /path/to/alt/config/file
Use alternate configuration file.
-oAfile
Specify possible alias files.
-oLn
Set the default log level to n. Defaults to 9.
-on
Validate the RHS of aliases when rebuilding the aliases(4) database.
newaliases runs in verbose mode (-v option) automatically.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Running the newaliases Command
The following command runs newaliases on an alias file different from the /etc/mail/aliases default in sendmail(1M):
example% newaliases -oA/path/to/alternate/alias/file
EXIT STATUS
newaliases returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h.
EX_OK Successful completion on all addresses.
EX_NOUSER User name not recognized.
EX_UNAVAILABLE Catchall. Necessary resources were not available.
EX_SYNTAX Syntax error in address.
EX_SOFTWARE Internal software error, including bad arguments.
EX_OSERR Temporary operating system error, such as "cannot fork".
EX_NOHOST Host name not recognized.
EX_TEMPFAIL Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued.
FILES
/etc/aliases Symbolic link to /etc/mail/aliases
/etc/mail/aliases.pag
/etc/mail/aliases.dir ndbm files maintained by newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases.db Berkeley DataBase file maintained by newaliases
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsndmu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M), aliases(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 2001 newaliases(1M)