Re: unclear alias behaviour

David Andel wrote:
> Hi all
>
> In /etc/aliases I have set up an alias for "root" pointing to "david"
> which is a unix account.
> Other email accounts are virtual using dovecot, one of them is "andel".
> They all work fine using /etc/postfix/virtual when used with the domain
> name which is defined in /etc/postfix/virtual.domains.
>   

Virtual aliases should be fqdn (should contain the domain part). if you 
don't include a domain part, postfix will qualify the address by 
appending @$myorigin. so put the domain explictely to avoid surprises.

> But the alias "david andel" in /etc/postfix/virtual does work only when
> sending to "david <at> domain.com" but not for the local mails sent to "root".
>   

/etc/aliases only work for "local" domains (domains in mydestination). 
for virtual domains, you need to add a virtual alias.

> And then there is another behaviour I don't understand. In my virtual
> mail folder /srv/vmail/domain.com dovecot made a new directory structure
> "david" which I didn't intend, for postfix should rewrite it to "andel".
>
> Where is the error?
>   

please show
- relevant log lines.
- output of 'postconf -n'
- master.cf