postfix alias problem

[Roger Grosswiler]

Am Donnerstag, den 02.12.2004, 12:51 -0500 schrieb David Cary Hart:
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 12:39 -0500, Bill Matthews wrote:
> > I am running Postfix on Fedora FC3.  I have a pretty large alias
> > table.  If the alias table is small, it works fine.  Meaning it builds
> > the alias database, and delivers mail correctly based on the alias
> > table.
> 
> Did you rerun "newaliases?"
> Any error messages?
> There were some problems that necessitated either putting aliases
> in /etc/postfix or creating a link to /etc/aliases /etc/aliases.db.
> 
> :include: is fully supported by the way.
> 
> You can ask Weitse the question in the postfix list.
> 
> 
> 
> > But when I supply a large number of aliases (>1000), it seems to build
> > the alias database fine (no errors), and postfix seems to be running
> > fine, but it just ignore the aliases.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this is a size limit, or a problem with one of my
> > aliases?  But its copied directly from a sendmail server, where it
> > works.  Anything I should look for? Any way to debug?
> > 
> > Thx,
> > BM
> > 
> 
Do you use LMTP as delivery method? AFAIK using LMTP, mails don't pass
aliases - you have to use the virtual-table instead.

Roger