Mountain Lion Server & postfix alias

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Mountain Lion Server & postfix alias

Just installed new Mac Mini Server and I cannot get postfix aliases to work. I have a working postfix setup I am trying to replace / upgrade. I've tried multiple things to include:

Updated alias mapping in /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases file (did newaliases and postfix reload afterwards)
Updated alias mapping in /etc/postfix/aliases file
Added 'alias_database = hash:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases' to main.cf
Added 'alias_maps = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases' to main.cf

If I send an email to postmaster it is mapped to root which is mapped to /dev/null. My alias file(s) has 'root: dmorsberger'. I have no idea where the /dev/null mapping is coming from.

It also doesn't work for normal user aliases. I think I can get normal user aliases to work if I can figure out what is going on with postmaster.

Any ideas or help?

Mac mini, OS X Server, Mountain Lion Server

Posted on Nov 24, 2012 12:18 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 24, 2012 2:05 PM in response to David Morsberger

Ok, I may have it working. There are three aliases files:

/etc/aliases,
/etc/postfix/aliases, and
/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases

It appears 'newaliases' works on /etc/aliases by default. If you want newaliases to update another file then use the -oA option

$> newaliases -oA/Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases - creates the /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/aliases.db file.

Seems odd that Apple would include the alias files in /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix and /etc/postfix if they are not being used. I connected all files with symbolic links

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