Re: Postfix help

From: Greg Oster <oster_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Fri Oct 27 2006 - 14:56:15 CST

robm writes:
> yep I have it, however I have no mailboxes locally on this machine. Do
> you think that might be the problem?
> thats why I tried virtual_alias_maps = has:/etc/postfix/virtual

Hmm.. not sure on that at all.. all the boxen I have postfix running
on either do local delivery, or are just secondary MXs (and don't have
any aliases).

Let's tackle this from a different angle: When you send mail to
"rob@thismachine", what happens? (really... so far there isn't a
whole lot of info to go on :) )

Later...

Greg Oster

 
> Greg Oster wrote:
>
> >robm writes:
> >
> >
> >>yep did that
> >>
> >>alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> >>and I ran new aliases and check the time stamp of the aliases.db
> >>(same for virtual)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >And you have this too:
> >alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> >?
> >Not sure what else is needed... it's always "just worked" for me...
> >
> >Later...
> >
> >Greg Oster
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Greg Oster wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>robm writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Aaaaaagh
> >>>>
> >>>>I am trying to set up a simple frontend email relay using postfix +
> >>>>clamav rbls etc... However for some reason I can figure out
> >>>>how to get postfix to use an alias file to route the mail to specific
> >>>>addresses on another machine
> >>>>
> >>>>rob: robert@othermachine.org
> >>>>jane: jane@differentmachine.org
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I tried to do this via alias.db and virtual.db has anyone POSTFIX(ed) up
> >>>>something like this?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>So what does your alias_maps line in main.cf look like, and have you
> >>>run 'newaliases' to create the aliases.db files?
> >>>
> >>>Later...
> >>>
> >>>Greg Oster
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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Received on Fri Oct 27 14:56:24 2006

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