Keith Palmer Jr. wrote: > * Postfix newbie alert * > > I'm trying to set it up so that I can have e-mail addresses that are not > tied to my FreeBSD system accounts. I'd like to have it pull the list of > recipients/domains from plain text files, and then I'll set up Dovecot to > retrieve mail via POP3/IMAP. The mailboxes should be stored in Maildir > format. > > Right now, I can telnet in and send an e-mail using MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, > DATA, but I don't know where that e-mail ends up. Nothing ever shows up in > /home/vmail (i.e. no directories are created, and no e-mails get dumped > there that I can see). > > What am I doing wrong? >
See comments below. > Thanks in advance! > > - Keith > > > > > So, I have a /usr/local/etc/postfix/vmaps which looks like this (and I > used postmap /usr/local/etc/postfix/vmaps to build a vmaps.db file out of > it): > ---------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain1.com/info/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain2.com/keith/ > ---------------------------------------- > Please use example.(com|net|org) to replace domains. > I have a directory named /home/vmail user/group vmail 5000:5000. I have > not created any directories in this folder, I don't know if I need to or > not... I saw something somewhere about using makemaildir.dovecot, but I > don't have that script/binary on my FreeBSD system anywhere. > > I have a /usr/local/etc/postfix/vhosts file which looks like: > ---------------------------------------- > domain1.com > domain2.com > ---------------------------------------- > > > I can telnet to port 25 and send an e-mail. I don't know where that e-mail > goes. If I run postqueue -p it shows nothing in the queue. If I run mailq, > I can see the e-mails but I can't tell what it's doing with them (and I > don't really know anything about the mailq command). > > > > Here's my main.cf file: > We prefer 'postconf -n' because it catches things like typos. Logs? What is the output of 'ls -lnd /home/vmail'? Please read (as mentioned in the welcome message) http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail If the postconf -n does not show mydestination, please show 'postconf mydestination' as well. Brian
