On 11/15/2011 3:48 PM, Justin wrote: > New to postfix please bare with us. :) > > We like to accept special characters in email id so surrounding the > email names with "", but still these emails are sent to fallback maildir. > > Followed this man page --> http://www.postfix.org/aliases.5.html > The name is a local address (no domain part). Use double quotes > when the name contains any special characters such You missed this valuable part of this line "(no domain part)"
> as whitespace, `#', `:', or `@'. The name is folded to lowercase, > in order to make database lookups case insensi- tive. > > > E.g., $firstem...@box.com <mailto:firstem...@box.com>, > &tes...@mail.com <mailto:tes...@mail.com>, #t...@ju.com > <mailto:t...@ju.com> > > Wrapped them as "$firstemail"@box.com, "&testem"@mail.com, > "#test"@ju.com as well "$firstem...@box.com" - but no use. Aliases allows "$firstemail" or "&testem" or "#test". You MUST NOT include the domain part. As always, aliases(5) maps are only used for those users that are delivered by the local(8) delivery agent. Brian
