Alias Problem

[dan radom]

* admin at kclinux.net (admin at kclinux.net) wrote:
> I have a client with one of our Red Hat 9.0 servers using sendmail. The
> email works perfectly for all email accounts and aliases except one.
> emergency-pager at customers.domain.com is an email address that is forwarded
> to a pager.phone.number at pagercompany.com. I can email the
> pager.phone.number at pagercompany.com directly just fine and it comes
> through. When I email the alias, I get:
> 
> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
> 
> Subject: test
> Sent: 10/8/2003 1:31 PM
> 
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
> 
> emergency-pager at xxxxx.com on 10/8/2003 12:49 PM
> The message could not be delivered because the recipient's mailbox is full.
> 
> Mailbox full? WTF? It's an alias!
> 
> I look at all the aliases and everything is 100% fine. It's pointed to the
> correct email address.  The alias before and after this alias in the
> config work 100%.
> 
> I made sure (twice) that someone didnt accidently make an account
> "emergency-pager", which there wasnt.
> 

You don't have a catch all email address setup using the virtusertables
do you?  It sould like you may.  Check /etc/mail/virtusertable for an
@domain.com entry.

dan