Brian, Thanks for the reply. We have put quotes surrounded the mail name part only excluded the domain and made sure that main.cf has
resolve_dequoted_address as yes We receive email from external sources and postfix forwards to our local mail store, here is the value of "virtual_alias_maps" in main.cf virtual_alias_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix.myd/my_domain_aliases.regexp, hash:/etc/postfix.myd/virtual_users, hash:/etc/postfix.myd/virtual_dlists, hash:/etc/postfix.myd/dropboxes, regexp:/etc/postfix.myd/dropboxes.subdomains.regexp, regexp:/etc/postfix.myd/unrewrite.regexp Sample virtual_users fragment "#criticalema...@mydomain.com" ms23/007/000/002/106/@mail.dir "#criticalema...@mydomain.another.com" ms23/007/000/002/106/@mail.dir postmap creates virtual_users.db file using virtual_users and uses for lookup. My perception is during the lookup it is not able to resolve the email to corresponding maildir, hence routing to fallback maildir rather than bouncing it back.(we don't want it to get bounce that part is fine). Please let me know for more info. ________________________________ From: Brian Evans - Postfix List <grkni...@scent-team.com> To: postfix-users@postfix.org Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Special character in email ID 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
