cannot send any mails using mailx

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hi

I cannot send any mails to the root user;

ext:/var/mail#  echo "Message" | mailx -s "this is a test mail" root@localhost
ext:/var/mail# mail
No mail for root

other user get mails without any problems.
I have sarge stable with postfix installed.

ext:/# newaliases
ext:/# postmap /etc/aliases
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 2: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 3: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 4: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 5: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 6: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 7: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 8: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 9: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 10: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 11: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 12: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
postmap: warning: /etc/aliases, line 14: record is in "key: value" format; is this an alias file?
ext:/# postalias /etc/aliases
ext:/# cat /etc/aliases
# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root

ext:/# /etc/init.d/postfix restart
Stopping mail transport agent: Postfix.
Starting mail transport agent: Postfix.

greetings
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[TheBigPhish]

have you rebuilt the database since making those changes? Once you make changes (or every time you do) you need to rebuild it, so that it may be parsed correctly (i believe it actually compiles an inline copy elsewhere that it uses for realtime parsing of the aliases file).

[cc]

I found this:

# cat .forward
| mailx linux@localhost

I've deleted

and have done the following:

# dpkg-reconfigure postfix

now it seems to work.