Mail not delivering to new user account

Hi,
Whilst troubleshooting what seemed like a user account problem, we created a new user account to replace the old user account. The new user account has a new shortname in WM. The old user account was deleted in WM. The new user account has the OLD shortname and email alias mapped to it in WM.
Email gets delivered to the NEW mailbox if its sent to [email protected] Email to [email protected] and [email protected] still gets delivered to the OLD mailbox.
How on earth can this be? Where are the email aliases mapped?
Cheers,
Stu

Used "dscl localhost -read '/Search/Users/[oldusername]'" to search for records with the username and found a stale directory entry. Used "dscl localhost -delete '/Search/Users/[oldusername]'" which deleted the stale record and everything started working.
Stu

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