On 24 Apr 2010, at 13:57, Wietse Venema wrote: Sabahattin Gucukoglu: >> I'm setting up Postfix 2.6, speculatively, reading through the >> documentation and building my configuration. It appears that the >> scenario I want is somewhere between virtual and local deliveries. >> >> What I want to do: .forward support, /etc/aliases support, detail >> address (user-foo) support. >> >> What I do not want: mail being delivered or accepted to bin, >> daemon, and other nonsense. >> >> The machine is only serving me and my services, all implemented >> as aliases. My alias is not equal to my username, which itself >> doesn't get mail and doesn't want it, thank you very much. >> Therefore, everything is an alias, there will never be, and I >> don't want, deliveries for non-alias or non-.forward-style deliveries >> referenced through an alias. >> >> Can somebody explain if there is some right way to do this? Am >> I even thinking along the right lines? Perhaps I should implement >> this another way. Right now I would be using local(8) and access > > I recommend that you make a distinction between "inside" and > "outside" views. > > - For the "inside" view, alias all system accounts (bin, daemon, > etc) to the "primary" user. You don't want to throw away mail that > is related to activity by local processes. > > - For the "outside" view, set local_recipient_maps to a table that > lists only accounts that are to supposed to receive mail from > outside the machine. There is no legitimate reason to send mail to > (bin, daemon, etc) from outside. > > /etc/postfix/main.cf: > local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/local > > /etc/postfix/local: > # bare username, not u...@domain > foo whatever > bar whatever > ... > > Where "whatever" can be any non-empty string. > > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#local_recipient_maps > http://www.postfix.org/DATABASE_README.html#lists
Okay, this looks great, but I have clearly missed a beat here, that check is being done in smtpd. Does this mean that recipient_delimiter is checked in smtpd as well as in the delivery agent itself? That's how LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README looks to me. Because if it does, I'm made. :-) I'm clearly spoiled, coming from sendmail. Cheers, Sabahattin
