On 6/19/2013 6:11 AM, Craig R. Skinner wrote: > > I'm setting up Postfix for a domain that hosts Dovecot IMAP mail dirs > for real Unix accounts. Postfix needs to accept mail for users' public > aliases, but not their Unix login, and reject mail for daemon accounts. > e.g: > > > joe.blo...@example.com --> jb4356 > jane.blos...@example.com --> jb8921 > postmas...@example.com --> postmaster > ab...@example.com --> postmaster > hostmas...@example.com --> hostmaster > > > The above are in /etc/passwd: > postmas...@example.com --> postmaster > hostmas...@example.com --> hostmaster > jb4...@example.com --> reject as unknown > jb8...@example.com --> reject as unknown > s...@example.com --> reject as unknown > na...@example.com --> reject as unknown > dove...@example.com --> reject as unknown > sq...@example.com --> reject as unknown > post...@example.com --> reject as unknown > > jb4...@server1.example.com --> reject as unknown > jb8...@server2.example.com --> reject as unknown > ... > ... > > > main.cf [part]: > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain > myorigin = $mydomain > mail_spool_directory = /var/mail/ > mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp > local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps > alias_maps = btree:$config_directory/aliases > alias_database = btree:$config_directory/aliases > local_transport = local:$myhostname > canonical_maps = btree:$config_directory/canonical.map > virtual_alias_domains = > btree:$config_directory/virtual_alias_domains.map > virtual_alias_maps = btree:$config_directory/virtual_alias_maps.map > > > $ cat virtual_alias_domains.map > example.com virtual > > > $ head virtual_alias_maps.map > postmaster postmaster > abuse postmaster > hostmaster hostmaster > joe.blo...@example.com jb4356 > jane.blos...@example.com jb8921 > > > $ head canonical.map > hostmaster hostmas...@example.com > postmaster postmas...@example.com > jb4356 joe.blo...@example.com > jb8921 jane.blos...@example.com > > > I've experimented with various settings and found that it works if I > list the valid public address mappings as virtual aliases, but Postfix > complains with: > postfix/trivial-rewrite[3585]: warning: do not list domain example.com in > BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias_domains.
What happens when you try mydestination = > I've thumbed through 'The Book of Postfix' & the packaged HTML *READMEs. > The examples appear to be for either fully virtual accounts, or Unix > accounts where joe@ has a Unix account of 'joe'. > > There's probably something simple I'm not understanding here. Has happened to me on more than one occasion. ;) -- Stan
