Thank you both for the confirmation. I suspected this was the behavior
however as I'm new to Postfix I wanted to be certain I didn't misconfigure
anything. It appears I have everything configured as needed. I will, as
recommend, add the @localhost qualifier to the right hand side. You may wish
to update the howto with this as the example I included was taken directly
from there.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wietse Venema
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 8:22 AM
To: Postfix users
Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting Behavior
Josh McKee:
The configuration is fairly straightforward and I've copied the
appropriate
files from the Sendmail configuration to the Postfix configuration and all
seems to be operating as expected with one exception. If the UNIX user
account on the right hand side of the virtual mapping doesn't exist
Postfix
doesn't appear to reject the user. Using the example virtual file from the
howto:
6 postmas...@example.com postmaster
7 i...@example.com joe
8 sa...@example.com jane
Indeed. For now, don't specify virtual aliases that have no valid
right-hand side.
The Postfix SMTP server currently does not recursively expand aliases
to find out if the target exists. I may be able to fix that for
one-to-one mappings, but it is not a priority issue.
Finally, it is a good idea to specify a fully-qualified address
on the right-hand-side, for example:
postmas...@example.com postmaster@localhost
Wietse
