On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:51:13AM +0000, T D wrote:
> My basic problem is that I can't work out how to forward email to more
> than one recipient. For example, let's say I want o...@example.com to
> 1) be delivered to its Cyrus mailbox as normal and 2) to be forwarded
> to b...@blackberry.net and j...@vodafone.net.
>
> (1) Was working anyway, and so was (2) when there was only one email
> address to forward to. I setup /etc/postfix/recipient_bcc with
>
> o...@example.com: b...@blackberry.net
>
> and all was hunky-dory. However, I then tried
I don't understand the ":" in your example. That is not valid syntax
for virtual_alias_maps, which is documented in virtual.5.html :
> o...@example.com: b...@blackberry.net,j...@vodafone.net
o...@example.com b...@blackberry.net, j...@vodafone.net
^no colon
alias_maps (for local(8) domains) uses the colon, but will not see
the complete email address, just the LHS / localpart.
> and it failed delivery as
> 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1
> <b...@blackberry.net,j...@vodafone.net>:
> Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table
1. We should see the actual logs, with consistent munging, if any.
Since you're an experienced mail admin, I presume you understand
that domain names are the basis for mail routing. The message you
showed here is interesting in that it seems to have treated the
bob@,jane@ pair as a single address.
2. We should see the postconf -n output too, because there is no
magic in the filename "recipient_bcc". It implies that you used it
as recipient_bcc_maps, but that implication still does not explain
everything.
> What's the correct syntax to do this? Very grateful for any assistance.
You're already using virtual_alias_maps, so that is probably the best
of many choices on how to do it.
> Extra info:
> ---------------
>
> As an aside, I then tried to do it by changing the LDAP entry for the
> email account (my additions inside ----)
This can be done, as long as your query for o...@example.com returns
"b...@blackberry.net, j...@vodafone.net". Unfortunately I cannot help
with LDAP specifics, but I can point you to LDAP_README and the
ldap_table(5) man page.
Also, with any such lookup in Postfix, the postmap(1) tool can help.
postmap -q "lookup-key-string" maptype:mapname
When the desired result is returned, it will work.
> But then the users complained that the mail wasn't being delivered to
> their IMAP mailbox, and it was being forwarded to the blackberry /
> vodafone address around ten times!
Content filtering without proper receive_override_options set? Hard
to say, see above.
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