From: Dan on
I can send emails from server to dan(a)domain.com.

On server, I set up an /etc/aliases:
dan: dan(a)domain.com
And ran newaliases.
/etc/mail/aliases: 1 aliases, longest 21 bytes, 27 bytes total

When I try to send mail to dan, and have it forwarded to
dan(a)domain.com, I get nothing.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
From: Andrzej Adam Filip on
Dan <dan(a)domain.com> wrote:

> I can send emails from server to dan(a)domain.com.
>
> On server, I set up an /etc/aliases:
> dan: dan(a)domain.com
> And ran newaliases.
> /etc/mail/aliases: 1 aliases, longest 21 bytes, 27 bytes total
>
> When I try to send mail to dan, and have it forwarded to
> dan(a)domain.com, I get nothing.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks

Run the test command below (as root):
sendmail -d27.2 -bv dan

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From: Dan on
Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi(a)onet.eu> wrote:
> Run the test command below (as root):
> sendmail -d27.2 -bv dan


# /usr/lib/sendmail -d27.2 -bv dan
alias(dan)
dan (, dan) aliased to dan(a)domain.com
self_reference(dan(a)domain.com)
... no self ref
dan(a)domain.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host relay.relayer.net, user dan(a)domain.com
From: Andrzej Adam Filip on
Dan <dan(a)domain.com> wrote:

> Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi(a)onet.eu> wrote:
>> Run the test command below (as root):
>> sendmail -d27.2 -bv dan
>
> # /usr/lib/sendmail -d27.2 -bv dan
> alias(dan)
> dan (, dan) aliased to dan(a)domain.com
> self_reference(dan(a)domain.com)
> ... no self ref
> dan(a)domain.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host relay.relayer.net, user dan(a)domain.com

So most likely sendmail gets something "wrong" as the domain part of the
address. Could you:
1) post log entries generated by "miss-delivered" e-mail
2) repeat the test for address with domain part as indicated by log entries

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From: Dan on
Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi(a)onet.eu> wrote:
> So most likely sendmail gets something "wrong" as the domain part of the
> address. Could you:
> 1) post log entries generated by "miss-delivered" e-mail
> 2) repeat the test for address with domain part as indicated by log entries

# /usr/lib/sendmail -d27.2 -bv dan(a)domain.com
dan(a)domain.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host relay.relayer.net, user dan(a)domain.com

Jul 2 09:35:00 server sendmail[26748]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m62EZ0d8026748: from=root, size=51, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200807021435.m62EZ0d8026748(a)server.domain.com>, relay=root(a)localhost
Jul 2 09:35:00 server sendmail[26749]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m62EZ06X026749: from=<root(a)server.domain.com>, size=361, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200807021435.m62EZ0d8026748(a)server.domain.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jul 2 09:35:00 server sendmail[26748]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m62EZ0d8026748: to=dan, ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30051, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (m62EZ06X026749 Message accepted for delivery)
Jul 2 09:35:21 server sendmail[26752]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m62EZ06X026749: to=dan(a)domain.com, ctladdr=<root(a)server.domain.com> (0/1), delay=00:00:21, xdelay=00:00:21, mailer=relay, pri=30603, relay=relay.relayer.net. [10.229.183.100], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ( <200807021435.m62EZ0d8026748(a)server.domain.com> Queued mail for delivery)

Is this what you want?