Oh nevermind. Just saw there's a newer update on this thread. On Sun, Mar 8, 2020, 13:31 Abhijith Sethuraj <abhijithsethur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried reordering your config so that individual stuff gets picked > up first and then if nothing succeeds use the catch all? I believe this is > just a logic flaw inside your config. > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020, 17:24 Jivan Pal <jivan....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> All of my mailboxes are virtual, e.g. `al...@example.com` and ` >> b...@example.com`. >> I would like to set up a catch-all virtual mailbox `catch...@example.com` >> such that mail sent to any other address `*@example.com` gets sent to >> `catch...@example.com`. >> >> Here is an excerpt of my config: >> >> > == /etc/postfix/main.cf == >> > mydestination = >> > virtual_mailbox_domains = example.com >> > virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailboxes >> > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_aliases >> > virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/virtual >> >> > == /etc/postfix/virtual_mailboxes == >> > al...@example.com example.com/alice/ >> > b...@example.com example.com/bob/ >> >> > == /etc/postfix/virtual_aliases == >> > @example.com catch...@example.com >> > al...@example.com al...@example.com ## >> > b...@example.com b...@example.com ## >> > postmas...@example.com al...@example.com >> >> >> Notably, the lines marked `##` are *required* for mail delivery to work as >> expected. If they are omitted, then *all* mail for example.com ends up >> in the >> `catch...@example.com` mailbox --- Alice and Bob can't see their mail! >> Based on [1], my understanding is that the `@example.com` syntax was >> designed >> for true mail-forwarding domains, i.e. those where no mailboxes exist, so >> all >> mail must be forwarded to one or more other domains. However, my question >> is >> whether simpler syntax/configuration exists for partial forwarding such >> as the >> internal catch-all behaviour I'm after (or, indeed, just a simpler config >> for my >> particular use case) --- is there another way to set this up so that, in >> future, >> as more mailboxes are added to the domain, there isn't a need to include a >> "redundant" alias like `##` for every mailbox besides the catch-all one? >> >> Thanks, >> Jivan >> >> [1] Mail forwarding domains: >> http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#forwarding >> >
