Hanspeter Kunz: > well, my intention was to use /etc/aliases for forwarding mail adresses > like root, webmaster, logcheck, etc. to real users. This would be > different users on every host. That's why I want first to > process /etc/aliases and then route the mail to our central mail server.
/etc/aliases is used only for domains in $mydestination. This is documented behavior, and will not be changed. To rewrite address that don't deliver locally, use virtual_alias_maps (NOT virtual_alias_domains) to rewrite root etc, into real recipients. Wietse