On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:26:46AM -0700, Brian Andrus wrote:
>
> I thought as much, unfortunately, since the local accounts have an '@' sign
> in them, using procmail as local delivery seems to not be happy.
>
> So now the question becomes:
> Is there a way to get postfix to allow '@' signs as part of a user name
> when using the local transport?
>
> eg: for my email account which is:
>
> [root@email postfix]# getent passwd brian.and...@firstspot.net
> brian.and...@firstspot.net:x:7453:1500:Brian
> Andrus:/domains/firstspot.net/users/brian.andrus:/bin/bash
You've shot yourself in the foot. Aim the gun elsewhere (away from
your body). Account names MUST NOT have a domain component. Use virtual
aliases to map email addresses of this form to underlying accounts
that contain no "@" signs.
brian.and...@example.net ba00001
brian.and...@example.org ba00002
...
The passwd(5) file should have just ba00001, ...
--
Viktor.
