Can't receive email for aliases

[sbecker]

I have setup a website at www.xyz.com (not the real domain name) and I have created a user account for scott@xyz.com

I can send and receive email for this account fine.

I created an email alias in ISPConfig for smb@xyz.com (typed "smb" into the email alias field).

I can't receive email for this alias, and when i attempt to send to smb@xyz.com, my email bounces back with:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    smb@www.xyz.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 <smb@www.xyz.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table

I checked my /etc/postfix/virtusertable file and I don't see "smb" anywhere in it. I assume this is where its supposed to be?

What i do see for xyz.com is:

scott@www.xyz.com    web6_scott
web6_scott@www.xyz.com    web6_scott
scott@xyz.com    web6_scott
web6_scott@xyz.com    web6_scott

but no mention of my aliases. When I edit the record in ISPConfig, it does show "smb" in the Email Aliases field. What gives? Is it in another file?

[falko]

Any errors in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/ispconfig.log?
Please post the output of

ls -la /root/ispconfig

[sbecker]

Nope, no errors in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/ispconfig.log

The only thing I could see were some warnings about not being able to set quota for a user I deleted, but was still in the recycle bin. I have since emptied the recyle bin, so probably won't see this anymore:

27.03.2006 - 22:48:18 => WARN - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php, Line 929: WARNING: could not setquota -u web10_ahh 0 0 0 0 -a &> /dev/null
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I ran "tail -f /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/ispconfig.log" and watched what it output when I saved an email alias, which was:

28.03.2006 - 17:16:41 => INFO - Signalfile Set: update
28.03.2006 - 17:17:00 => INFO - Signalfile Set: update
28.03.2006 - 17:17:43 => INFO - Signalfile Set: update
28.03.2006 - 17:17:52 => INFO - Signalfile Set: update

Here is the output of "ls -la /root/ispconfig"

total 83
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root  1024 Mar 27 22:41 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  1024 Mar 25 16:09 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     0 Mar 27 23:44 .ispconfig_lock
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     8 Mar 27 22:40 .old_path_httpd_root
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 54208 Mar 23 22:56 cronolog
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  9673 Mar 23 22:56 cronosplit
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:45 httpd
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:56 isp
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:43 openssl
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:52 php
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:56 scripts
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:56 standard_cgis
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  1024 Mar 23 22:56 sv
-rwx------   1 root root  9128 Mar 23 22:56 uninstall

[till]

Please execute:

rm -f /root/ispconfig/.ispconfig_lock

Then restart ISPConfig:

/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server restart

When you change a user in the ispconfig interface, do the aliases get written now?

[sbecker]

No luck.

Aliases do not get written. New users don't seem to get written to /etc/postfix/virtusertable either. That was working before. Something is definitely messed up.

Should I reinstall? Can I reinstall without overwriting data?

[sbecker]

Based on some other threads on this forum, I tried running:

rm -f /root/ispconfig/.ispconfig_lock
/root/ispconfig/php/php -q /root/ispconfig/scripts/writeconf.php

and of course I get:

start
Segmentation fault

I am running on a Xen VPS (Debian 3.1) with 128 megs of RAM (and 256 swap). Do you think it being a VPS could cause the Segmentation fault? I don't think I have a way of running memtest86 on it because I can't boot it from a floppy, I can only connect to it remotely and start/stop it from a web control panel.

Is there any other options?