I am trying to send all local mail to a single external e-mail, using Google's SMTP servers (I got that working following this nice tutorial).

Using Google's SMTP servers work, as I am able to send mail to external addresses work using mail from mailutils.

The redirection of local mail to the external e-mail does not work. When sending a mail to root from my account test using:

echo "Body" | mail -s "Test Postfix To Root" root

• I never recieve the message


• Nothing new turns up in /var/log/mail.err


• This turns up in /var/log/mail.log

Sep  4 18:48:06 desktop1204test postfix/pickup[5535]: C9326EE26: uid=1000 from=

Sep  4 18:48:06 desktop1204test postfix/cleanup[5702]: C9326EE26: message-id=

Sep  4 18:48:06 desktop1204test postfix/qmgr[5534]: C9326EE26: from=, size=401, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Sep  4 18:48:06 desktop1204test postfix/local[5704]: C9326EE26: to=, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0.02/0/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)

Sep  4 18:48:06 desktop1204test postfix/qmgr[5534]: C9326EE26: removed

My /etc/postfix/main.cf:

inet_interfaces = loopback-only

mynetworks = loopback-only

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

## I commented the below two lines out, as they conflicted with the accepted answer

####virtual_alias_domains = localhost.localdomain

####virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587

smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes

smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem

smtp_use_tls = yes

My etc/aliases:

# See man 5 aliases for format

postmaster:    root

My /etc/postfix/virtual:

@localhost.localdomin        [email protected]

How can I get it working? I don't want any local mail to arrive locally, they should all go to [email protected].