new users and aliases mail not working

Hi. Thanks for your thoughts However that is not how I have experienced it. I have vern as my name, vernd as my first shortname on the first tab, v.dempster as the second and ictadmin as the third. Mail has always delivered to vern, vernd,v.dempster but will not deliver to the ictadmin name I recently put in. All except ictadmin have been there since before 10.6. ictadmin I added last week as I am trying to set up a new accounts@mah... email. I cannot get accounts as a short name or accounts as a new user to work. There seems to be some problem with 10.6 and new users and email. It is the same as the open directory problem that I have reported six months ago that crashes afp regularly and has still not been fixed.

Has no one seen this problem. Are there any dovecot experts out there that can help me resolve this issue before the beginning of our new year and I have a number of new teachers to get emails working for. The problem is that I cannot get email accounts to work for new users or for new aliases added to their username.

I finally discovered the problem. Mail is on my Open directory replica and I discovered that the replica had not been updated since the 24th November for some reason so I reset it up as an opendirectory replica and suddenly my accounts email started working. I always test a new user by connecting the user to the OD master but this time I tried the OD replica and it wouldnt work. weird. Oh well - another one to experience. Thanks