Re: chaining aliases failing?

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chaining aliases failing?
\ anoonan (24 Jul 2007)
. \ Magnus Bäck (24 Jul 2007)
. \ Andrew Noonan (24 Jul 2007)
. . \ mouss (24 Jul 2007)

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Subject:	Re: chaining aliases failing?
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	24 Jul 2007

Andrew Noonan wrote:
> Sorry about that.

Please do not top post. put your text after the text you replay to.

> I have included my configs as well as a log from a message attempt. The company uses an external mail hosting service, so the attempt (and subsequent rejection) of root from the mx1.emailsrvr.com servers is correct behavior for the root user, though it should have been rewritten to sysadmin, which would have been accepted.
>

you have a setup where
- $myorigin is not a domain you handle mail for
- you use non fqdn addresses in your aliases

rewrite your alias as:

postmaster: root@localhost