i experienced a unexpected result when running a test on email delivery. Is this they way Courier is set to behave around delivery regarding email addressed to an alias@adomainalias? Maybe i've got something wrong with the way i'm using email aliases?

some specs:

- several virtual hosted email domains on server - primarydomain configured and operating properly with mailboxes and aliases - alias domain configured in both hosteddomains and esmtpacceptmailfor and makes where run

what happened:

1) sent a message to username1@aliaseddomain, when username1@primarydomain is a mailbox, it arrives just fine in username1@primarydomain mailbox.

2) sent a message to username2@aliaseddomain, when there is only an alias for username2@primarydomain. bounce back occurred with "user unknown".

3) added an alias for username2@aliaseddomain to match the forwarding addresses listed for username2@primarydomain alias. sending again and the email got delivered fine with this extra layer of aliasing aliases... seems like a redundant work-around. any suggestions?

4) notably, also, sending it with this last configuration, 3), generated no logs of processing or delivery into mailbox it was forwarded to (maybe that is a separate issue, why no logs were generated when sending to an alias that forwards to a local mailbox... SA ran on message according to headers)

any tips or thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,

charles