On 1/10/11 4:28 PM, Markus Treinen wrote:
Hello list,
I have a nicely running Postfix installation which uses both virtual
and local users.
To prevent local mail being delivered to spool files, I have to alias
(via /etc/aliases) the relevant users to a virtual user, which is not
very elegant.
It's ass-backwards.
If you need SOME local users to deliver, but not ALL, put the domain in
one of the virtual classes and alias the ones you DO want to deliver
locally, to a local account.
If you don't want ANY mail to be delivered locally, then do not use
externally-reachable local domains.
What I want to do is forward all mail, that _would_ be delivered
locally to a single virtual account, without aliasing every single
UNIX user.
You just said that you don't want mail to be delivered locally. So don't
deliver mail locally.
I tried using "luser_relay", but for that to work,
"local_recipient_maps" must be empty.
Where did you read that ?
luser_relay works fine with the default: local_recipient_maps =
proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
But that would prevent local aliases in /etc/aliases to work.
What I have:
- virtual delivery for all my domains (as configured via MySQL)
So, no locally delivered domains at all. Sounds like you already have
what you want.
- all virtual mail is aliased to some_u...@virtual.local
- all mail for @virtual.local is delivered via dovecot
That sounds incredibly complicated.
Any particular reason you're not simply delivering your virtual domains
to dovecot ?
Or with the default postfix virtual(8) MDA ?
- mail for local users is aliased using /etc/aliases
There is absolutely no sane reason to do this.
If you want SOME "local users" to get mail, alias them from virtual to
local:
j...@virtual.domain j...@localhost
the expanded local alias will stil lundergo local(8) alias expansion, so
there is nothing you can't do with such a setup.
Note that, by definition, "local users" have system accounts with owned
mailboxes.
If you mean anything else by the term "local users", we're not going to
see eye to eye.
--
J.
