[Workaround.org] Howto: ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix 2.3 - Dovecot - Problem

Josef Weiss projekt1 at gmx.at
Sun Aug 31 00:44:12 CEST 2008


As clayton suggested i created an user 'catchalladdress' in virtual_users for 
the domain intern.test and an empty user for the same domain in 
virtual_users. I also created an empty source in virtual_aliases with a 
destination to the address catchalladdress at intern.test.
I sent an email directly to catchalladdress at intern.test so the 
directory-structure for catchalladdress at intern.test was created 
( /home/vmail/intern.test/catchalladdress/). But when I send an email to a 
nonexistent user (e.g. senseless at intern.test) this is not delivered to 
catchalladdress at intern.test but instead a new 
directory-structure /home/vmail/intern.test/senseless/ is created.


Am Samstag, 30. August 2008 16:21 schrieb dr.noetigenfalls at web.de:
> > Thx Clayton for your help. But it seems that there is still something
> > wrong
> > with my configuration.
> >
> > Now thanks to your advice i am able to get a line like:
> > +----------------+-------------------------------+
> >
> > | email          | destination                   |
> >
> > +----------------+-------------------------------+
> >
> > | @intern.test   | catchalladdress at intern.test   |
> >
> > +----------------+-------------------------------+
> > in my view_aliases but when i send an email to a nonexistent user
> > "nonexist at intern.test" this is not delivered to "
> > catchalladdress at intern.test" but  instead a new mailbox-directory for the
> > nonexistent user is created.
> > This would produce a lot of trash-directories in the case of typo's.
> > And this can't be the correct operation, since what I want is that a mail
> > to a nonnexistent user is either rejected (when there is no catchall) or
> > sent to the catchall.
> > Could you please help me further.
> >
> > As for point 2 of my last mail. Thx you are right it was in
> > /var/spool/mail
> > and as I stated before I only had to rtfm :-) it was right there in the
> > standard main.cf.
> > I now changed the aliases, so that the mail would be delivered to a
> > virtual-account, so that I can access it from another box in my network.
> >
> > Sorry that I cannot answer the threads correctly, but till I set up my
> > network completly I have to use a rather crude environment, so I'm not
> > able
> > to answer directly to the mails but have to download them with telnet and
> > send via gmx-Webmail. This is also the cause for the rather anoying
> > footer's in my mails.
> >
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> Hi project1
>
> as far as I remember the howto new users are created as long as there's no
> virtual user to receive mail. Using your configuration there should be an
> entry in virtual_domains like >inter.test, another entry in virtual_users
> like >catchall and a third entry in >virtual_aliases where the source is
> empty an the destination would be catchall at intern.test.
>
> This is how it works on my machine.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
>
>
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