I just upgraded our mail server from a 10-year old Solaris server
running sendmail and WU-IMAP to Linux running Postfix 2.9 and Dovecot
2.1 and have encountered a problem I didn't anticipate and am hoping to
find some help.
We're a university department with our own mail server,
mail.dept.university.edu, and generally everyone has their clients send
mail to u...@dept.university.edu - which works well. As I didn't want to
create system accounts for everyone here and knowing that I might end up
hosting mail for another department as well, I decided to use virtual
domains and defined ours as dept.university.edu.
One of the users has sent mail with a return address using the FQDN of
the mail server, namely u...@mail.dept.university.edu and now Postfix is
rejecting this as it believes the user does not exist.
Currently I have the following defined:
myhostname = mail.dept.university.edu
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_domains.cf
Can I add a local alias for user which redirects to
u...@dept.university.edu, or is there a better way to solve this issue?
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Michael Sloan
Systems Administrator
FSU Center for Advanced Power Systems
sl...@caps.fsu.edu
