On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Steffen Schaumburg wrote: > Hi everyone, > Sorry if this has been asked before I searched all over the place but I > just can't figure it out. I'm trying to setup postfix, using dovecot for > delivery (and IMAP&POP3). Dovecot in turn uses a MySQL backend. I used this > guide: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mail_server_using_Postfix_and_Dovecot > Basically IMAP and POP3 are working, but when I try to send email to the > new server it fails. I tried: > - sending email from the new server to the new server (using thunderbird > via SMTP). > - sending email from my old server (this one) to the new one. > - I tried sending to both real mailboxes as well as to two aliases. > > The error is always the same, here's thunderbird's version when using the > new server's SMTP: "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server > responded: 5.1.1 <use...@schaumburger.info>: Recipient address rejected: > User unknown in virtual mailbox table. Please check the message recipients > and try again." > > I should mention that I'm not exactly an expert with this stuff, but I have > successfully setup postfix before (but without dovecot) and have a fair bit > of experience with *nix administration. I used postfix 2.5.5 originally, I > tried updating to 2.5.6 just in case it was a bug but no change. I assume > this is a silly error on my part somewhere ;) > I also checked that the SQL user&pw used for this is working, all the > configs and SQL entries seem to be correct as far as I can tell.
[clutter] http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail (pay particular attention to sixth bullet point) -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
