On Thursday, August 6, 2020 11:55:34 AM PDT Robert Cooper wrote:
> did you run 'newaliases'? You shouldn't need to restart postfix to change an
> alias.
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> RobertC
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> From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org <owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org> on
> behalf of PopeRigby <poperi...@mailbox.org> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020
> 13:51
> To: postfix-users@postfix.org
> Subject: Postfix is no longer forwarding root mail after I changed the
> forwarding address
>
> I have Postfix setup to automatically forward any mail that goes to root to
> an external address. I just recently changed my email main email address
> from a Tutanota one to a Mailbox.org one. I went into /etc/aliases and
> switched out
> my addresses there, so now it looks like this:
> > # See man 5 aliases for format
> > postmaster: cassidy
> >
> > cassidy: poperi...@mailbox.org
> > root: poperi...@mailbox.org
> > clamav: root
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> After I did this, I forgot that I had to reload Postfix, so it was still
> sending mail to my Tutanota account. When I remembered, I did "sudo service
> postfix restart". Now mail isn't being forwarded to either addresses.
No, I didn't. I'll see if that works.
