Having now got a working configuration, I am trying to
simplify/re-adjust it in preparation for moving to using some sql
queries rather than hard coded config files.
I have two imap accounts, my personal, as above, and my business ( which
is for valid e-mail addresses in domain @hartley-consultants.com),
I also need to pick up messages for computers within my home network
these are called kanga.home. owl.home and piserver.home.
In that area, my main.cf currently contains
virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:milter/dspam-lmtp
virtual_mailbox_domains =
chandlerfamily.org.uk
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox
virtual_alias_domains =
piserver.home
owl.home
kanga.home
... (some others)
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
/etc/postfix/vmailbox
a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk alan
hart...@chandlerfamily.org.uk hartley
(similar for other family members)
and /etc/postfix/virtual
@piserver.home alan+piser...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
@owl.home alan+...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
@kanga.home alan+ka...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
a...@hartley-consultants.com hart...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
sa...@hartley-consultants.com hartley+sa...@chandlerfamily.org.uk
Basically, I am using virtual alias maps to map everything I am prepared
to accept into an e-mail address in the chandlerfamily.org.uk domain and
then mapping these into specific mailboxes.
SO I now try to simplify ...
According the explanation of all the parameters for main.cf
virtual_mailbox_domains defaults to $virtual_mail_box maps. so I am
thinking that I can drop that line in main.cf and move many of the
elements in virtual_alias_domains and virtual_alias_maps directly into
/etc/postfix/virtual
So I tried a limited experiment of removing the two lines
virtual_mailbox_domains =
chandlerfamily.org.uk
from main.cf and reloading postfix
This SHOULD (according to my expectation from reading the docs) cause
the virtual address mechanism to use the virtual_mail_box lookup table
to figure out the acceptable domains to be a virtual mail box for.
But it doesn't work - at least trying to use sendmail -bv
r...@kanga.home doesn't work because it now attempts to send the
delivery report (which it is trying to send to r...@piserver.home -
which should be mapped by the virtual_alias_maps to
alan+piser...@chandlerfamily.org.uk) externally, via my normal external
relay host - which then rejects it.
If I put those two lines back, the delivery report arrives immediately
telling me where r...@kanga.home would have been routed to
(alan+ka...@chandlerfamily.org.uk).
SO what is wrong with my thinking. Why doesn't it work
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
