[TriLUG] /etc/mail/aliases headache!

[Jason Tower]

turn on procmail logging and see what it says

jason

Randy Barlow wrote:
> Howdy all!  I'm having a fun mail aliases weirdness, and was wondering
> if any of you wise triluggers have any suggestions of what might be
> going on.  I'm just now setting up my own mail server on
> electronsweatshop.com.  My real username on my mail machine is rpbarlow.
>  So, rpbarlow at electronsweatshop.com seems to work just fine!  In the
> aliases file, I have two entries that are of interest to this e-mail:
> 
> root:  rpbarlow
> randy: rpbarlow
> 
> So when I send an e-mail to root at electronsweatshop.com, it does indeed
> end up in my mail box.  Great!  But when I send an e-mail to
> randy at electronsweatshop.com, it disappears into the ether (unless it's
> just taking a really long time for some reason...)  Interestingly, if I
> send an e-mail to randy at electronsweatshop.com, I see the following in my
> logs (booty is the name of my mail machine, because it, well... boots :)):
> 
> Nov 27 01:12:01 booty postfix/local[508]: 5FB8D344D2E:
> to=<rpbarlow at booty.electronsweatshop.com>,
> orig_to=<randy at electronsweatshop.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent
> (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail)
> 
> Something very similar ends up in the logs for the successful root@
> e-mails, so I really can't decipher what the difference is.  Any ideas?