Postfix and aliases

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:30, Gary Hodges wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 18:41, Gary Hodges wrote:
> > > On 1/9/07, Johan Brannlund <johan_brn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:23:15 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > > >> mydestination = space, localhost.localdomain, , localhost
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Jan  8 16:17:40 foo postfix/qmgr[5146]: 1B18954962: removed
> > > > >
> > > > > So, you need to figure out why the mail is looping.
> > > >
> > > > Try adding foo.srrb.noaa.gov to mydestination. By the way, that host
> > > > name doesn't resolve to an IP address, at least not from where I'm
> > > > sitting. Is it supposed to?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion, but no help.  I munged that machine name so
> > > it wouldn't resolve.
> >
> > If you would, please send me the unmunged logs and the full main.cf and
> > master.cf offlist.  Send the full logs for the period in question, not
> > just for that specific transaction.
> >
> > I'll look at them tonight or in the AM and maybe I'll see something I
> > don't see in the munged logs.
>
> Strangest thing.  After I tried the last suggestions and they didn't
> work I left things as is until today.  I saw your post and thought I
> should give it another shot, and of course it is now working.  I'm
> happy it is now working, but I wish I knew why.

Did you reload Postfix after the last suggestions?  If not it takes a while 
for old processes to die and new ones to start that read the new alias DB as 
they start.  That might explain it.

Scott K