[Dovecot] Virtual Alias Forwarding

[mouss]

mouss wrote:
> Eric Biondi wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with Dovecot and forwarding of aliases. Any help 
>> would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> I'm using Postfix, Mysql, dovecot, amavis.
>>
>> mysql> SELECT * FROM alias;
>> | address | goto | domain | created | modified | active |
>>
>> It seems from the logs that incoming mail is being delivered to the 
>> mailbox
>> via dovecot. Mail gets to the correct mailbox (address field), 
>> however, if I
>> change the destination mailbox (goto) in the alias table in mysql, 
>> the mail
>> still goes to the main mailbox (address).
>> mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf looks to be configured correctly but I'm
>> suspecting that dovecot is circumventing that file.   
>
> dovecot does not care about virtual aliases. These are a functionality 
> of postfix. The question belongs to the postfix list. post there, but 
> provide more infos:
> - output of 'postconf -n'
> - test lookups with postmap -q. for example
>    postmap -q mtb at domain.net  
> mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf

and master.cf. My guess is that you disabled virtual aliases when 
setting up amavisd-new filtering.