On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 01:24:37PM +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
> 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.
The latter is supported by all address classes, see
recipient_delimiter.
> What I do not want: mail being delivered or accepted to bin,
> daemon, and other nonsense.
IME this is not a problem worth worrying about. Those might be hit
when you get a dictionary attack, but not often.
> 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
> restrictions to prevent accepting mail for anything not configured
> in /etc/aliases, but this is somewhat awkward because it means
> maintaining two separate tables.
There's no way around the multiple tables that I can see, but there
are numerous trivial ways to do this. Well, "multiple" tables is not
quite right. Generally it seems like passwd(5) and one other.
1. "local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps", then keep all your valid
addresses in the aliases(5) file.
2. A check_recipient_access map listing the valid addresses added to
smtpd_recipient_restrictions in place of reject_unauth_destination,
followed by reject. This access(5) map would have entries like this:
[email protected] permit_auth_destination
3. The virtual ALIAS example in VIRTUAL_README; list valid addresses
in virtual_alias_maps; put the real Internet domain in
virtual_alias_domains, and put only "localhost, localhost.$mydomain"
in mydestination. Your virtual_alias_maps entries are as such:
[email protected] usern...@localhost
Among many. I would probably choose #3.
Please do also check the BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README and ensure that
everything mentioned in there is set as you need (or is fine with
default settings.)
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