Postfix Confusion with virtual
Brian Chabot
brian at datasquire.net
Thu Aug 18 13:46:01 EDT 2005
Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2005, at 13:13, Brian Chabot wrote:
>
>> Uhh... Is the "anything" a literal here? I have nothing before the
>> @hostname line.
>
>
> Yeah, here's the relevant bit:
>
> # Support for a virtual alias domain looks like:
We must be looking at different (and contradicting) docs.
I get:
-----From-/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.1.5/README_FILES/VIRTUAL_README-----
With virtual alias domains, each hosted address is aliased to a local UNIX
system account or to a remote address. The example below shows how to
use this
mechanism for the example.com domain.
1 /etc/postfix/main.cf:
2 virtual_alias_domains = example.com ...other hosted domains...
3 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
4
5 /etc/postfix/virtual:
6 postmaster at example.com postmaster
7 info at example.com joe
8 sales at example.com jane
9 # Uncomment entry below to implement a catch-all address
10 # @example.com jim
11 ...virtual aliases for more domains...
...
* Line 10: the commented out entry (text after #) shows how one would
implement a catch-all virtual alias that receives mail for every
example.com address not listed in the virtual alias file. This is not
without risk. Spammers nowadays try to send mail from (or mail to) every
possible name that they can think of. A catch-all mailbox is likely to
receive many spam messages, and many bounces for spam messages that were
sent in the name of anything at example.com.
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*shrug* let's see...
Here goes with the new lines:
host.domain.com anything
@host.domain.com username
...nope.
"Relay access denied"
...and
host.domain.com anything
someuser at host.domain.com username
...nope.
"Relay access denied"
...and
host.domain.com anything
someuser at host.domain.com username at localserverfqdn
..nope.
"Relay access denied"
...and just:
someuser at host.domain.com username at localserverfqdn
..nope.
"Relay access denied"
I'm beginning to think it's not in the virtual.db file.
Brian
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