Hello all you great linux people out there!

How would one get the aliases file to recognize webmaster? Maybe it's just me, but for some reason I cannot get my aliases to recognize it. I have been successful in setting up other aliases, such as Chad: masterc but I cannot get webmaster: masterc to work. I also cannot get Spam: masterc to work either, and am thinking this might be some sort of built in Spam blocker; or that there are built in default "aliases" such as no such user for Spam, and webmaster is... I don't know.

Anyway, can anybody give me any info on aliasing?

Here's what I do:

I open up my aliases file (which is in /etc/aliases and then is also symlinked to /etc/postfix/aliases to ensure they are identical) and edit it to show my new alias I desire:
webmaster: masterc

I then exit, save and run:
postaliases /etc/aliases

I've also (just to see) ran:
postaliases /etc/postfix/aliases

And then restarted postfix:
postfix restart

However, the changes did not stick, or at least it would appear so. When someone tries to send an email to "webmasterATmasterc.no-ip.org" it returns to them as an error in sending, and: "unknown user".

Thanks for any ideas

So uh, Postfix, yeah. It's like Sendmail, anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

I guess the people whom help the most never get helped themselves

From ALIASES man page"

"Normally, the aliases table is specified as a text file that serves as input to the postalias(1) command. The result, an indexed file in dbm or db format, is used for fast lookup by the mail system. Execute the command newaliases in order to rebuild the indexed file after changing the Postfix alias database."


Hope this helps...

Hmmm, so maybe I did rebuild the db, but then forgot to run newaliases...

I'll give it a shot, and thank you very much for you response

Oh, and actually I've been asking alot of questions lately, mainly server related as I got a new project going People on here have been great to help!

Thanks again Bulliver

Woohoo! You sir, are the man of day, I'd happily buy you a drink tonight if you were anywhere nearby! Thank you for the snippet from the man page!

How close is Penticon? Anywhere near Vancouver? I'm headin up there tomorrow night, and be glad to buy you a Guiness or 2!

Thank you again, woohoo!

btw, it worked

Cool

I'm about four hours from Vancouver...guess I'll take a raincheck.

Glad it worked.