Email Addresses Wrong on Aliased Domain

[Toxalot]

I have mydomain.com and then I have mydomain2.com which is an alias for mydomain.com. The settings for Synchronize DNS zone with the primary domain, Mail service, and Web service are all enabled.

I set up an email address on mydomain.com with a forward but no mailbox. I later realized their was a typo in the address and fixed it.

I was looking at the virtual alias table (in reference to another post http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=263793) and noticed that there is an entry for typo (at) mydomain2.com and none for corrected (at) mydomain2.com. I haven't tested sending to these addresses yet as I have not completed the move and DNS still resolves to old site, but I can't imagine that email sent to corrected (at) mydomain2.com would be delivered without an entry in the virtual alias table.

Questions
1) Will this cause a problem? Or does the forward take affect before the virtual alias table is checked? Where does the mail server check for forward info?
2) If I use postmap to update the virtual alias table manually to correct this, will the change stick? I assume the file will be overwritten by Plesk and I'm wondering where the source data is and if it's correct. Will doing this have any bad side effects? Is their a better way to fix this?
3) Is this a bug or is there something I am missing?

 

[abdi]

Renaming an email address sometimes has issues, though works for most times on Plesk. So I recommend, you delete that email address and just create a fresh new one ...Since afterall it does not store any mail so you have nothing much to loose.

 

[Toxalot]

I think I fixed it, but here's an explanation of what happened and what I did so maybe it can help someone else.

I deleted and recreated the address. Upon inspecting the virtual table, I still had one entry for corrected (at) mydomain.com and one entry for typo (at) mydomain2.com. So I deleted the address and inspected the virtual alias table. corrected (at) mydomain.com was gone but typo (at) mydomain2.com was still there.

I created the address once again. The virtual alias table is not in alphabetical order and difficult to scan visually so I sorted it and noticed that I had 3 entries:
corrected (at) mydomain.com
corrected (at) mydomain2.com
typo (at) mydomain2.com

I can't be sure, but I probably had all 3 even before deleting and recreating the address. I just didn't notice because it wasn't next to the others.

So I don't have to worry about undeliverable mail. The only issue that remained was that typo (at) mydomain2.com was still a valid address. Normally, that wouldn't be a big deal. But another address was changed because it got huge amounts of spam. I don't want spamtarget (at) mydomain2.com to remain a valid address.

I manually removed spamtarget (at) mydomain2.com from virtual alias table. I used the GUI to change an email address (on a domain that doesn't have a domain alias) to have Plesk overwrite my changes to see what happened. Upon inspecting the virtual alias table, it seems that spamtarget (at) mydomain2.com has been permanently removed.

 

[abdi]

Good to hear that ...