Upon further testing and trial and error, I have discovered that this problem occurs no matter what my configuration, even when I remove maildrop and qmail-scanner. Do aliases not work in 5.4.x yet, or am I missing something here?
> Hello all, > > I've search high, low, and in the between places, but haven't been able to > get any help for my present problem at all. But I suppose I should provide > some background first. > > I am running qmail 1.03-r13, qmail-scanner 1.16-r2, SpamAssassin 2.62, > maildrop 1.5.3, f-prot 4.3.2, and vpopmail 5.4.0-rc1, all on a Gentoo > server installation. My installation is very very similar (with a few > minor exceptions) to this guide's > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=111817). For the most part, > everything is working as intended, but I do have one very large, prominent > glitch. My aliases are not working. > > The log files have been less then helpful in showing me where the problem > is, but from what I can see, so far, I gather things are going something > like this: > > * qmail accepts mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * qmail acknowledges [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alias for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * qmail sends the mail to qmail-scanner, which scans the mail > appropriately, and sends it into the queue. > * qmail-queue happily informs me that the mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > could not be delivered because the maildir for user_alias does not exist, > despite the fact that it already told me it knows this mail should go to > real_user. > > I'm not really sure where things are going wrong here, it almost appears > like somewhere in the chain it is 'forgetting' that [EMAIL PROTECTED] > is an alias for real_user... In fact, I half suspect that qmail-scanner is > at fault, but have no way to verify this. If anyone can point me at any > relevant information, I'd be ecstatic. > > ---------------------------------- > Kirk Smith > the Illiji network > http://www.illiji.net/ > ----------------------------------
