Mail going to wrong account

Two of my mail servers that I manage are delivering mail to the wrong account
for example some emails sent to say [email protected] are ending up in [email protected]
If you look at the header sam is not a recipient nor is she a forward in aliases
any help would be greatfully recieved

These are possible causes for an e-mail to end up in the wrong place:
-additional shortnames in WGM
-forward set in WGM
-a .forward file in the user's mail directory
-an alias in /etc/postfix/aliases
-an alias in /etc/postfix/virtual
-a sieve script
-a bcc
-a catchall account
-an autoforward by the original recipient
Hope I didn't miss any.
You should check all these possibilities. If you still need help, post relevant log entries and the unmodified output of postconf -n

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I amm also having mail going to th wrong accounts, luckily it is only happening to few out of 170+ accounts.
Pterobyte- I seen your suggestions on the other similiar post and cannot seem to find anything wrong in those areas.
I am enclosing current postconf & smtplog for your info.
Let me know if there is anything else you need.
Last login: Mon Oct 30 15:00:59 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Skilster:~ admin$ postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
enableserveroptions = yes
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = all
mail_owner = postfix
mailboxsizelimit = 0
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
messagesizelimit = 0
mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,localhost,mail.skilonline.com,skilonline.com
mydomain = skilonline.com
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = mail
mynetworks = 192.168.10.250/32,65.66.91.249,127.0.0.1/32,192.168.4.0/24,192.168.1.0/24,192.1 68.2.0/24,192.168.3.0/24
mynetworks_style = host
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = postdrop
smtpdclientrestrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/smtpdreject
smtpdpw_server_securityoptions = login
smtpdrecipientrestrictions = permitsasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauthdestination,permit
smtpdsasl_authenable = yes
smtpdtls_keyfile =
smtpduse_pwserver = yes
unknownlocal_recipient_rejectcode = 550
Skilster:~ admin$
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 80990E5F489: message-id=<20061022212104.93FE620CD54@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: mail for [127.0.0.1]:10024 is using up 4001 of 4179 active queue entries
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to reduce smtp-amavis connect and helo timeouts
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: so that Postfix quickly skips unavailable hosts
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to increase the main.cf minimalbackofftime and maximalbackofftime
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: so that Postfix wastes less time on undeliverable mail
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to increase the master.cf smtp-amavis process limit
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: please avoid flushing the whole queue when you have
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: lots of deferred mail, that is bad for performance
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: to turn off these warnings specify: qmgrclog_warntime = 0
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: BC96AE5F48A: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03CF9A19CEA
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: BC96AE5F48A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28868E5BFB4: from=<[email protected]>, size=2651, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28877E51AD7: from=, size=3928, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28877E56F87: from=<[email protected]>, size=1672, nrcpt=13 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: E3D88E5F48E: uid=27 from= orig_id=03CFEA2EE0E
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: E3D88E5F48E: message-id=<20061027025516.2F93A90A4A9@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2887EE50216: from=, size=3754, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288B2E5E899: from=, size=4429, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 1F16CE5F492: uid=27 from= orig_id=03D019FE1A7
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288BDE4A388: from=<[email protected]>, size=2147, nrcpt=6 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288D4E4D52A: from=<[email protected]>, size=1585, nrcpt=5 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 1F16CE5F492: message-id=<20061027095250.C308295642D@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288D7E58445: from=, size=4019, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28909E4EE47: from=, size=4369, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 52EE5E5F493: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA2A565
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: 52EE5E5F493: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28928E5E8E8: from=<[email protected]>, size=2285, nrcpt=9 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 774A7E5F494: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA4DB9D
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: 774A7E5F494: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28930E5CDD9: from=<[email protected]>, size=1953, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 8F19CE5F496: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0EA0B1AE
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 8F19CE5F496: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2896CE4F622: from=<[email protected]>, size=2669, nrcpt=6 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 9B98EE5F497: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D10A15914
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: 9B98EE5F497: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2897BE4D773: from=, size=4071, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289AAE4E89C: from=, size=4309, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: B375BE5F498: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D16A488A8
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: B375BE5F498: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289B4E51D1F: from=, size=4524, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289C3E5E56E: from=<[email protected]>, size=1512, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A26E4C8E0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2012, nrcpt=10 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: C9531E5F499: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D1EA4D844
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: C9531E5F499: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A58E4CCC0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2193, nrcpt=4 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A74E510AE: from=, size=3944, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: E1433E5F49A: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D219EE5EA
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: E1433E5F49A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:49 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A83E50BA2: from=, size=5396, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
o.com.tw>, relay=none, delay=5097, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mx2.mail.tw.yahoo.com[203.188.197.10] refused to talk to me: 453 Mail from 65.66.91.249 not allowed - [90])
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE66E5EE43: from=<[email protected]>, size=2077, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 265E0E5F8D7: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=04806A06335
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[835]: 265E0E5F8D7: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE9BE4EDC0: from=, size=4463, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

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