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user unknown, not getting mapped

From: Phil Howard <ttiphil_at_nospam>
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 20:12:10 GMT
To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org>

May 26 15:59:27 eth0 postfix/pipe[17347]: 0C35B68534:
to=<foo@example.com>, orig_to=<root>, relay=dovecot, delay=21567,
delays=21567/0.02/0/0.06, dsn=4.1.1, status=SOFTBOUNCE (user unknown)

I do have foo@example.com configured in virtual_alias_maps to go to
bar@example.com ... and that is working as I can send mail to
foo@example.com and it really shows up in bar@example.com's mailbox.
I suspect that the bouncing mail was queued to be delivered _before_ I
had put that mapping in virtual_alias_maps. Can someone confirm that
might be what is happening? Is there a way to get it to be remapped
now that it is in the delivery queue? Or should I just create a
mailbox for foo@example.com and mv the file over to bar@example.com?