can not forward email to an account on the same domain

[sygram]

Hi guys,

i have the following issue.

I have account1@domain.com and account2@domain.com . I go to account2 and set to forward all emails to account1. This is not working though. The emails are not forwarded. I have tried two lines at the account2 forward field :

account1@domain.com
web15_account1

Does anyone know how to sort this out ? If i enter an "external domain" i.e. otheraccount@otherdomain.com (hosted on a different server) it is working fine

I appreciate your answers

Regards,

Leon

[till]

The forwarding should work even if the target is in the same domain. Which messages do you get in a mail log when such a message should be forwarded?

[sygram]

Thank you for your reply. This is a very fresh portion of the log. Although the email is delivered it is not forwarded to the other account of the same domain.

Jun 6 07:51:59 cl-t039-440cl postfix/smtpd[28723]: connect from s7000.webappcabaret.net[209.11.152.3]
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/smtpd[28723]: setting up TLS connection from s7000.webappcabaret.net[209.11.152.3]
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/smtpd[28723]: TLS connection established from s7000.webappcabaret.net[209.11.152.3]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/smtpd[28723]: 99A1861693C: client=s7000.webappcabaret.net[209.11.152.3]
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/cleanup[28727]: 99A1861693C: message-id=<484924D3.1090503@extdomain.com>
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/qmgr[21126]: 99A1861693C: from=<user@extdomain.com>, size=1069, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/local[28729]: 99A1861693C: to=<root@server1.privatedns.com>, orig_to=<news@domain1.com>, relay=local, delay=0.31, delays=0.28/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/qmgr[21126]: 99A1861693C: removed
Jun 6 07:52:00 cl-t039-440cl postfix/smtpd[28723]: disconnect from s7000.webappcabaret.net[209.11.152.3]


Regards,

Leon

[till]

Is there a alias for "news" in the file /etc/aliases? If yes, remove this alias and then run:

postmap /etc/aliases

[sygram]

Yes correct ! There are 4 entries :

news: root
newsadm: news
newsadmin: news
usenet: news


Do i have to remove all or just the first ? How is this going to affect my system ?
I mean why are these values here ?

Thanks a lot

[till]

These values are defaults of your linux distribution. It has no negative effect on your system if you remove all the 4 entries.

[sygram]

I just tried that. I commented out the lines, run /usr/sbin/postmap /etc/aliases and even restarted postfix. The result is the same...

Any more thoughts ?

Leon

[sygram]

Actually when i ran the command it gave me a few warnings, but no errors. I am not sure whether this makes a difference. It am trying to find out where do i set the forwards from one address to another, to check it manually.