FQDN Problem after Migrating to Virtual Domains

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Sloan
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.uni

Re: FQDN Problem after Migrating to Virtual Domains

2013-01-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.01.2013 23:40, schrieb Michael Sloan: > 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:

Re: FQDN Problem after Migrating to Virtual Domains

2013-01-02 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 05:40:41PM -0500, Michael Sloan wrote: > 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 If your domain is a virt

using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Blessenohl
Hi, I tried using an e-mail address "@"@example.com in postfix. When I try to deliver a mail to it, postfix rejects it with the error message 501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax (state 13) I defined an alias, so in theory it should work. The recipient address is totally valid as far as I

Re: using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.01.2013 04:02, schrieb Michael Blessenohl: > I tried using an e-mail address "@"@example.com in postfix. When I try to > deliver a mail to it, postfix rejects it > with the error message > > 501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax (state 13) > > I defined an alias, so in theory it should

Re: using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Blessenohl
Am 03.01.2013 04:06, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 03.01.2013 04:02, schrieb Michael Blessenohl: I tried using an e-mail address "@"@example.com in postfix. When I try to deliver a mail to it, postfix rejects it with the error message 501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax (state 13) I defined an

Re: using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.01.2013 04:13, schrieb Michael Blessenohl: > Am 03.01.2013 04:06, schrieb Reindl Harald: >> Am 03.01.2013 04:02, schrieb Michael Blessenohl: >>> I tried using an e-mail address "@"@example.com in postfix. When I try to >>> deliver a mail to it, postfix rejects it >>> with the error message

Re: using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:02:41AM +0100, Michael Blessenohl wrote: > I tried using an e-mail address "@"@example.com in postfix. When > I try to deliver a mail to it, postfix rejects it with the error > message > > 501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax (state 13) That's not a Postfix rejection

Re: using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Blessenohl
Am 03.01.2013 04:21, schrieb /dev/rob0: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:02:41AM +0100, Michael Blessenohl wrote: I tried using an e-mail address "@"@example.com in postfix. When I try to deliver a mail to it, postfix rejects it with the error message 501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax (state 13)

Re: using the character @ in the local part

2013-01-02 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:49:50AM +0100, Michael Blessenohl wrote: > /var/log/mail.info: > Jan 3 03:09:45 hostname postfix/smtpd[5781]: connect from > mail-we0-f173.google.com[74.125.82.173] > Jan 3 03:09:45 hostname postfix/smtpd[5781]: warning: Illegal > address syntax from mail-we0-f173.goog