Mail to discuss was bouncing

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sun Jan 29 18:24:36 EST 2006


On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:22:00 -0500
David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > This is a test email. It appears that a change was made to one of the
> > postfix alias files yesterday and something was not set up right. 
> 
> Got it.
> 
> Yes, it was very confusing, because I was in the process of rebuilding 
> my new server (again) with SuSE 10, and having trouble with 
> postfix/uw-imap.  I sent an email to the list about it and it bounced, 
> which, I *knew* had to be a problem on my side.
> 
> I did log into the blu server yesterday to send emails to myself from 
> outside, but I never logged in as root, so I don't believe there was any 
> way for me to screw up anything.
The problem was the aliases on Asgard. I have no clue why the problem
existed. I simply edited one of the alias files (that had not been
changed in over a year), rebuilt the database, and reloaded postfix. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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