How would you setup postfix to scan the aliases table for users so that DBMail doesn't have to bounce mails to non-existant users? I keep getting tons of lame double-bounces because of this, and I would thing it would be less taxing on the system if postfix just regected non-existant users.
dbmail CVS + Postfix BTW.. thanks, -Micah On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 13:36, Jeff Brenton wrote: > Hello Boyan, > > BA> Thank you for the tip, I also use postfix. I am not familiar with > BA> the postfix error classes but I will check the postfix > BA> documentation. Are you sure this is configured just with postfix. > > Ah, you haven't got Postfix checking your dbmail.aliases database to > see if the users exist yet... So Postfix doesn't know to bounce > non-existant users before the message is collected. > > Are you using dbmail with MySQL or Postgres? If MySQL, you need to add > the following line to your main.cf file: > > local_recipient_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mailbox.cf > > where mailbox.cf contains the parameters for checking an address > against the dbmail aliases table, such as: > > user = postfix > password = password > dbname = dbmail > table = aliases > hosts = 192.168.2.2 > select_field = alias > where_field = alias > > Reload postfix, and dbmail will no longer see messages for > non-existant users, so you'll not get those dbmail-generated bounce > messages. > > The Postfix-generated messages are controled by: > > # what to tell postmaster about > notify_classes= resource > software > policy > protocol > 2bounce > bounce
