From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 16:40:00 CST

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On Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 22:33 CET,
     Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomogmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to set up mailman on an OS X server that I don't have a lot
> of control over. It appears to have the default installation of
> postfix that comes with OS X 10.3.9. I'm not a postfix expert by any
> means, but I think I've done everything typical yet I cannot get
> postfix to notice and act upon aliases in /etc/aliases.
>
> For example, if I run
>
> mail -s"test" minxmertzmomogmail.com < sometextfile
>
> I get the file in my inbox. But when I edited /etc/aliases as below:
>
> matt: minxmertzmomogmail.com
>
> then ran newaliases (and reloaded postfix for good measure), the command
>
> mail -s"test" matt < sometextfile
>
> does not work. Instead, the alias is ignored and the message sits in
> the 'defer' area of the queue:
>
> cca:/private/var/spool/postfix/defer/2 root# cat 20DD57E741
> <mattcca.thisdomain.org>: connect to
> cca.thisdomain.org[192.168.1.56]: Connection refused

Why does Postfix connect to that host? What is the name of your host?
What is the output from "postconf -n"?

Either you haven't listed the domain in question in mydestination,
or your transport table messes things up.

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