got a problem with a email account

[paulley]

hi all

i have got this email account on my server and its setup like this :

sales@example.com salesuser

but theres a alias in postfix called sales that goes to postmaster then goes to root and for some reason its messing up the email, anything going to sales@example.com goes to root not salesuser which it is set has. But once i change the alias from postmaster to the salesuser then it works. I have tried deleting the alias but its seem like its fixed to that account and after deleting the alias the email fail to send from hotmail. Then i put the alias back in again and set to root , email for sales@example.com goes to root then i change the alias to salesuser and it starts woking any idea why this is happening


thanks

[falko]

Delete all salesuser entries from /etc/aliases, run

newaliases

and restart Postfix.

[paulley]

i have deleted the salesuser unix account and deleted the entry in the /etc/aliases and run newaliases and restart postfix. Then i have put the created the salesuser unix account again and put the entry sales@example.com salesuser and postmap it and restarted postfix but its coming back a message from hotmail saying delivery to sales@example.com has failed like it was before but as soon has i create the alias sales > salesuser it works fine. also when looking in the other email unix accounts theres a non proper message saying dont detele but there aint one in the salesuser unix account?

thanks

[platd]

I think you need to read some documentation and figure out exactly what you are trying to do.
Then if you still have problems give the people here a clear description of what you want

[paulley]

i want it back has before eg:

virtusertable

sales@example.com salesuser

and so it doesnt keep on relaying on the alias to send the mail to the account in the virtusertable which it show do!

, since the alias come into it , its been messing about the email account. But why it is when you create a unix account for the first time it creates the non proper message say dont detele it this is a message from the mail system etc then when you detele the unix account and then create it again the message aint there. I guess thats why it aint send to that account becuase it has not got the non proper message.

Also the documentation does not say about this problem i am having, because i have looked!!!

[falko]

Please post your /etc/aliases here.

[paulley]

#
# Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from
# Mail, but WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail.
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after
# >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to
# >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail.
#

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root

# General redirections for pseudo accounts.
bin: root
daemon: root
adm: root
lp: root
sync: root
shutdown: root
halt: root
mail: root
news: root
uucp: root
operator: root
games: root
gopher: root
ftp: root
nobody: root
radiusd: root
nut: root
dbus: root
vcsa: root
canna: root
wnn: root
rpm: root
nscd: root
pcap: root
apache: root
webalizer: root
dovecot: root
fax: root
quagga: root
radvd: root
pvm: root
amanda: root
privoxy: root
ident: root
named: root
xfs: root
gdm: root
mailnull: root
postgres: root
sshd: root
smmsp: root
postfix: root
netdump: root
ldap: root
squid: root
ntp: root
mysql: root
desktop: root
rpcuser: root
rpc: root
nfsnobody: root

ingres: root
system: root
toor: root
manager: root
dumper: root
abuse: root

newsadm: news
newsadmin: news
usenet: news
ftpadm: ftp
ftpadmin: ftp
ftp-adm: ftp
ftp-admin: ftp
www: webmaster
webmaster: root
noc: root
security: root
hostmaster: root
info: postmaster
marketing: postmaster
support: postmaster


# trap decode to catch security attacks
decode: root

# Person who should get root's mail
#root: marc

[falko]

I don't see salesuser in there...
What's the output of

grep salesuser /etc/passwd

?