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Hi Martin,

Martin Hudec (webmail) wrote:
> and /etc/mail/aliases.db has
> 
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  65536 Mar 24 12:25 aliases.db

I think that your problem is with the permissions of that file.
I think that you perhaps should use chmod o+r aliases.db in the 
/etc/mail directory, or chgrp postdrop (or whatever group you use) 
aliases.db in the /etc/mail directory.

And then retry :-)

cheers

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Remko Lodder
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