On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 17:29 -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> > Adding example.com (or remote.domain) to mydestination above should mean
> > that ONLY <existing local user>@example.com (or @remote.domain or
> > @<address literal> is accepted, right?
> No. It means that example.com becomes a local domain.
Ok,.. of course,.. but only <existing local user>@<localdomain> should
be accepted...


> > But it seems that also <non-existent local user>@example.com domain is
> > accepted _if_ it is rewritten to some existing local user with
> > virtual_alias_maps (the domains were not part of virtual_alias_domains)!
> > And I do not really understand why ;)
> Recipient validation existence of virtual mappings into account. Virtual
> and canonical mappings apply to all domains, so it would be a mistake
> to reject addresses that are rewritten downstream. So the SMTP server
> performs an existence test on the lookup key.

So this basically means:
- When checking the domains (relay control) only normalisation is done?

- When validating the recipients, normalisation and all other rewritings
(canonical and virtual aliases) are taken into account?
Is it here where the probe messages are sent?


Cheers,
Chris.

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