Problem when creating new email and user

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version ubuntu 18.04
Virtualmin version 2.021

I am having a strange problem creating an email address.

To create it I just do virtualmi->Edit USers → Add a user to this server.

I fill in the email, the real name and the password. For example I created an email ‘user@xxx.com’ with the real name ‘user’.

Everything is created automatically normally.

However when I send an email to user@xxx.com I get a return like this:
user-xxx.com@vps.server.local (expanded from user@xxx.com):
unknown user: “user-xxx.com”

In the ‘Edit Mail Aliases’ part, the line that matches the name ‘user’ has a destination alias ‘Address user-xxx.com’.

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Hello,

having the same problem.

Fixed the problem by creating manually the email Aliases.

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How do you create manually aliases?

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Edit Mail Aliases and then click Manually edit aliases.

if your email is info@domain.com

info::info\@domain.com

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What OS do you use, is it the same. This should not be needed to be done.

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Is use Ubuntu 18.04

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sorry, I meant mackos, it might be the OS. I have Rocky9 with no issues.

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I have rocky 9.1
I created the users normally but no aliases were created.

Update.
When you edit a user and add forward option to another user, then the email alias is getting removed. At the end forwarding is not working.

How to add forward to another email too?

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Best to create another topic. Maybe add screenshots of what your doing. Never had a issue doing this.

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Sorry about that! Unfortunately, Virtualmin 7.5 has a bug. Upcoming Virtualmin 7.7 is going to fix this issue!

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When I edit manually aliases in virtualmin, aliases are deleted.
So now I don’t have any aliases in this section.

But my file etc/postfix/virtual still have one record inside.
What is the good file to edit aliases?

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When the new version with the fix will be available?

Until then, is any way to have forwarding working?

Thanks.

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Yeah, you can tweak config files manually or enable creation of an extra Unix for Postfix in Virtualmin configuration, and re-create the user.

I think it’s better to wait until @Joe pushes Virtualmin 7.7 packages to our repos.

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What is the good file to edit aliases? etc/postfix/virtual ?

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Virtualmin 7.7 has been released which should fix your problem.

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/etc/aliases file.

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