>>>> I have a mailserver running postfix and spamassassin. I have a user >>>> 'user1' and an alias 'alias1', like this in /etc/aliases: >>> Two obvious things to check: 1) did you run 'newaliases' to rebuild the >>> aliases database? >> Positive. The mail is delivered to the right place, it just doesn't get the >> bayes checks done (or check the user's whitelist, or anything that needs >> access to their home directory) > I don't think spamassassin understands aliases. I've never used > spamass-milter, but judging by an online copy of its man page, I suspect you > may be missing the -x option. > -x' Pass the recipient address through sendmail -bv, which will > perform virtusertable and alias expansion. The resulting username > is then passed to spamc. Requires the -u flag.
You are exactly right, this did the trick. Thank you!