Postfix Confusion with virtual

Brian Chabot brian at datasquire.net
Thu Aug 18 13:12:00 EDT 2005


Bill McGonigle wrote:

> Aren't you rejecting all mail here that isn't from mynetworks or 
> pop-before-smtp?  I have reject_unauth_destination instead of reject 
> in mine.


I've tried it both ways.  Same exact error. 

>> @$HOSTNAMEFQDN   $USERNAME
>
> In /etc/postfix/virtuial I have:
>
> Do you have an 'anything' line before that?
>
> e.g.:
>
> mcgonigle.us            anything
> @mcgonigle.us            bill


Uhh... Is the "anything" a literal here? I have nothing before the 
@hostname line.

> I'm assuming you're not doing variable expansion in some new version 
> of postfix, but are trying to obfuscate the real hostnames from us 
> (example.com can sometimes make for cleaner examples).

Yup.


Brian
...who is beginning to think sendmail was easier...



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