On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:46:02PM +0200, Micka?l Can?vet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some trouble trying to validate mail aliases from LDAP.
>
> My users are defined in LDAP with the attribute 'mail' that stores each
> mail alias and the attribute mailRoutingAddress that stores the real
> mail address (corresponding to uid).
>
> for example:
> dn: uid=lastname, ou=people, dc=mydomain, dc=com
> mail: lastn...@mydomain.com
> mail: lastn...@mydomain.eu
> mail: firstname.lastn...@mydomain.com
> mail: firstname.lastn...@mydomain.eu
> mailRoutingAddress: lastn...@mydomain.com
>
> I can send mail to lastn...@mydomain.com and lastn...@mydomain.eu, but
> when I try to send a mail to firstname.lastn...@mydomain.com or
> firstname.lastn...@mydomain.eu my mail is bounced with the error
> message: unknown user: "firstname.lastname".
The lookup key for aliases(5) with local(8) delivery is as documented
just the "username" without the domain.
> # postmap -q "firstname.lastn...@mydomain.eu"
> ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-aliases.cf
> lastn...@mydomain.com
Wrong lookup key.
> Another weird thing is that when I use this:
>
> query_filter = mail...@mydomain.com
>
> instead of:
>
> query_filter = mail=%s
>
> it works (but it's ugly) even for mydomain.eu that is really weird...
Not weird at all.
--
Viktor.
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