Giuseppe De Nicolo' wrote: > Hello all, > > I am relatively new on postfix, my server atm is on qmail but since > I had it confgured to use vpomail and its support has been dropped by > courier I decided to move it to postfix-dovecot with virtual on > mysql(thats just as background).now to my postfix, I m running it on > slackware 12.2, at the moment the mail server is up and running I can > send and receive e-mail from my domains and have webmail set up > (decied to go for roundcube had squirrel on qmail) now the problem > ...on qmail I did use ezmlm as mailing list manager ... for postfix I > decided to go with Mailman. > > Mailman is installed ( I even setup mysql db but disabled them for > the sake of debugging) my server does accept mail for the virtual > mailbox ([email protected]) and his command mailbox BUT and this > is the problem it deliver them to my first and default virtual domain > (firstdomain.com) as I find the mailbox cretated there and the log > show them being delivered ...... so pratically the e-mail directed to > [email protected] get directed to [email protected] and > delivered AND there it stop ... mail doesn't go to subscribers and > command request don't reply to subscribers .... if I use the web > interface to massively add users ... they get the welcome e-mail ( so > smtp is working as intended). > What you must understand is that the virutal(8) delivery agent will not run commands. It simply delivers mail. Other delivery agents outside of Postfix may or may not use them, but they do not use the Postfix config files by default.
The only delivery agent included with Postfix that will run commands is local(8) . local(8) delivers mail in for domains listed in mydestination. The mailman domain MUST NOT be listed in virtual_mailbox_maps. Brian
