>---- Original Message ----
>From: mouss <mo...@ml.netoyen.net>
>To: postfix-users@postfix.org
>Sent: Sat, Jul 23, 2011, 5:55 AM
>Subject: Re: dovecot lmtp
>
>Le 20/07/2011 00:03, Kendall Shaw a écrit :
>> On 07/19/2011 01:32 PM, mouss wrote:
>>> Le 19/07/2011 22:00, Kendall Shaw a écrit :
>>>
>>> Your setup is ok, but your test is not...
>>>
>>> you have defined virtual_transport to be dovecot, but this only applies
>>> to virtual_mailbox_domains.
>>>
>>> you didn't explicitely specify mydestination, so the default applies:
>>> $ postconf -d mydestination
>>> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
>>>
>>> if this applies to you, then localhost is a "local" domain.
>>>
>>> this is good.
>>>
>>> in your tests, you should not send mail to @localhost. keep this
>>> reserved for addresses that need "local" functionality (execute some
>>> script,... etc).
>>
>> Okay, but I am not sending mail to @localhost. I send to
>> ks...@kendallshaw.com. Fetchmail sends RCPT TO:<eekshaw@localhost>.
>
>
>that's it. mail sent to localhost goes to localhost...
>
>> There is the header To: ks...@kendallshaw.com in the message. Does
>> postfix decide on the destination based on the To header or RCPT TO?
>
>
>when you send a letter, it goes to where the address you write on the
>envelope. you don't expect the mailman to open the envelope to see if
>you wrote "this letter is for ..."?
>>
>> If it is the later, I guess this is a fetchmail question, and I'll ask
>> somewhere else.
>>
>>> for mailbioxes @localhost that need to be delievered to a mailbox, use
>>> virtual_aliases_maps:
>>>
>>> joe@localhost joe+localh...@kendallshaw.com
>>>
>>
>> In case this is not a fetchmail problem, I tried:
>>
>> creating /usr/pkg/etc/postfix/aliases:
>>
>> kshaw@localhost ks...@kendallshaw.com
>>
>> postmap /usr/pkg/etc/postfix/aliases
>>
>> and added to main.cf:
>>
>> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/pkg/etc/postfix/aliases
>>
>> and there is no change after postfix reload.
>>
>> Does the alias happen before postfix picks a delivery process?
>>
>
>your /usr/pkg indicates a Netbsd system. yet, your previous log shows a
>"localhost.localdomain" which is a linux humphhumph. I'm lost...
>
>retry with
>append_dot_mydomain = no
>
>or change your virtual thing to
>joe@localhost.localdomain joe+localh...@example.com
