On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:09:23AM +0200, Andreas Schulze wrote: > Hello, > > I have a system using postfix multi instance feature. > The first, main postfix-instance is a nullclient as suggested by
If you call the default instance (as in http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html#default_instance) the "first, main postfix-instance" and this is the null-client instance, configured as sugested in the walk-through (http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html#quick), this should work. What happens if you invoke sendmail manually, what happens to messages from cronjobs? > http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html#split > > The second instance is for real use. Postfix receive mail and > handover them to the dovecot lmtp server. > > Thats working. > > The lmtp server supports sieve. One account has activated a vacation > rule. So while delivering a mail to this account, dovecot creates a > new mail based on the vacation rules. > > *This one* fail. It is injected in the main postfix instance, which > is wrong in this case. Why is this wrong? The vacation message is a locally generated message and as this should go to the null-client. > I tried to start dovecot with an additional environment > MAIL_CONFIG=/etc/postfix-instance2 I doubt this will affect the sendmail call from sieves vacation plugin. > and enabled alternate_config_directories in main.cf of the first > insance. You should not alter the config_directory for the default instance. > ( http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#alternate_config_directories > ) I also configured the userdb to return an extrafield > ) userdb_mail_config=/etc/postfix-instance2. Does this even exist? > But all produce strance postfix errors I never saw in my last 6 > years as postfix-admin. > > Would it be possible to configure dovecot lmtp server to use an > external smtp-server to submit new mails ? > > Any other Ideas ? If none of the above pointers help, go to the postfix-users list and follow the guidelines in http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail when reporting the problem. Dennis
