Sabahattin Gucukoglu:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm setting up Postfix 2.6, speculatively, reading through the
> documentation and building my configuration. It appears that the
> scenario I want is somewhere between virtual and local deliveries.
>
> What I want to do: .forward support, /etc/aliases support, detail
> address (user-foo) support.
>
> What I do not want: mail being delivered or accepted to bin,
> daemon, and other nonsense.
>
> The machine is only serving me and my services, all implemented
> as aliases. My alias is not equal to my username, which itself
> doesn't get mail and doesn't want it, thank you very much.
> Therefore, everything is an alias, there will never be, and I
> don't want, deliveries for non-alias or non-.forward-style deliveries
> referenced through an alias.
>
> Can somebody explain if there is some right way to do this? Am
> I even thinking along the right lines? Perhaps I should implement
> this another way. Right now I would be using local(8) and access
I recommend that you make a distinction between "inside" and
"outside" views.
- For the "inside" view, alias all system accounts (bin, daemon,
etc) to the "primary" user. You don't want to throw away mail that
is related to activity by local processes.
- For the "outside" view, set local_recipient_maps to a table that
lists only accounts that are to supposed to receive mail from
outside the machine. There is no legitimate reason to send mail to
(bin, daemon, etc) from outside.
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/local
/etc/postfix/local:
# bare username, not u...@domain
foo whatever
bar whatever
...
Where "whatever" can be any non-empty string.
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#local_recipient_maps
http://www.postfix.org/DATABASE_README.html#lists
Wietse
