Am 18.10.2010 23:31, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > Seeing how postfix could not access /etc/aliases I tried loosening > the permissions, but still no luck: > > [root at mercury ~]# chmod +rx /etc/aliases It is *NOT* the /etc/aliases plain text file Postfix tries to read in at startup. It is the hashed map /etc/aliases.db! And it is sufficient if root can read/write both files. Alexander