Dovecot LDA (deliver) aliases question.

I have a multiple virtual domain setup using sendmail, username/domain, password, home directory all stored in mysql,Set-UID/GID for dovecot 'deliver' setup as referenced in Dovecot LDA wiki. Delivery, and POP/IMAP work just fine, serving a mail store in /home/vmail/domain/username type of setup.

My problem comes from what may be a misunderstanding on my part on how to setup aliases for some virtual users.

I have the mailer specification for dovecot defined, and my mailertable and (access) tables setup for each domain, with an entry like this for each domain in mailertable:

domain.com dovecot:dovecot

and since I also function as SMTP relay for each customer, I also have an entry in in access

domain.com RELAY

and the tables are made with hash... this all appears to work just fine, except when I want to alias a certian email address.

Lets say that I have one email in the domain that needs to be forwarded to another remote account (on another server), I would normally accomplish this with an entry in virtusertable something like this:

sales@domain.com mailto:sales@domain.com user@otherdomain.com mailto:user@otherdomain.com

but when using dovecots' deliver as the LDA specified for domain.com in mailertable, this appears to be ignored, with the email being returned undeliverable (if sales@domain.com mailto:sales@domain.com doesn't exist), or being delivered to sales@domain.com mailto:sales@domain.com (if the account exists in the mysql table).

I have also tried creating the account, and placing a .forward file in the appropriate /home/vmail/domain/user directory, but this also appears to be ignored. Does anyone have some advice on how to implement such an ability?

I am running dovecot-1.0.rc17, sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5, mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1 on Centos 4.4

Sincerely Michael P.