> A while back I changed my aliases to use the mysql database. Well I > thought everything was fine until I had a changed and relized the > postmaster address was not working. Okay no problem I'll just link a > postmaster address to the support account of my system. Well that is > great if I send a mail to post master. But when postfix has a issue. > It sends it to postmas...@primary.domainname.com instead of > postmas...@domainname.com. I have two servers and so ofcourse the > other one doesn't work either. secondary.domainname.com. as it goes. > So all I get is a user not found.
For our servers using mysql mapping, I have a hash map prior to the mysql map, so I can map out critical accounts (such as abuse/postmaster/etc). This way if mysql is offline, the critical emails come through (include the system alerts). Hope that helps...