(mail on gentoo-docs-review) I have a small addition to the Desktop Configuration Guide, to be precise the mail part of this guide. Yesterday I spent most of my time writing documents about postfix, since my sqllog was growing with enormous speed. All log entries were about mail to root that could not be delivered. It turned out that postfix was looking voor mailaliasses in /etc/mail/aliasses.db, but it seemed that the newaliasses script only gave me a /etc/mail/aliasses file. I fixed this by running /usr/sbin/postalias /etc/mail/aliasses This solved the problem for me. (after clearing the queue ofcourse). Hope this helps, Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
postalias is when the aliasfile-location is changed. Default however /etc/aliases is used. Never in desktop.xml is the $alias_maps set to another value. Also, newaliases creates $alias_database which is default /etc/aliases. So this problem can only have occured when you deliberately changed the "alias_maps" or "alias_database" variables in main.cf
