[plug] Postfix help! Fixed...

[Greg Raftery]

Not sure, but I did figure out my problem (by reading the fine manual
repeatedly until my brain absorbed what it was trying to tell me). 

I was trying to do an alias like this :
root : username

and saw the light and changed it to 
root : /usr/spool/mail/username

and it worked after a reload. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Beau Kuiper [mailto:kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 8:33 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Postfix help!


hmmm,

I though for postfix, you also need to do a 

newaliases 

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Greg Raftery wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I am having a problem configuring Postfix. All email I try to send to my
> server end up bouncing with a 'unknown user' message. I have modified
> /etc/aliases and run postalias over it, and restarted Postfix, but it's
> still broken. 
> 
> I've searched high and low for a solution but am now truly stuck. Anyone
got
> a tip or two?
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg Raftery