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As you move from Sendmail to Postfix, your users wouldn't be automatically migrated... there's a file "/etc/postfix/virtual" that would contain a list of the various users setup on your server.
Also, your hostname needs to be listed on the "mydestination" line in /etc/postfix/main.cf.
-Eric
Yes, I've checked and I have those configured correctly. I can send emails to virtual domains where I am forwading the email to another address. But, it won't accept those emails that should map to a local mailbox. That's when I get the bounce back 'User unknown in virtual alias table'.
If you've set "myorigin", it will break delivery in about 99% of virtual hosting cases (everybody always sets it incorrectly). Leaving it unset will allow postfix to set it automatically (correctly). I don't have any reason to think this is your problem, except that it is such a common mistake.
Beyond that, you're going to need to give us some relevant maillog entries, and your main.cf. The bounces could be caused by a damned near infinite variety of misconfigurations.
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I removed the myorigin statement and that has stopped the bounce messages. But the email still does not arrive in the local mailbox. It arrives and disappears
Here is a log showing the report when it received an email:
Nov 17 11:40:02 ns1 postfix/pickup[31699]: 3AA94DA73A: uid=116 from= Nov 17 11:40:02 ns1 postfix/cleanup[32431]: 3AA94DA73A: message-id=<20091117114002.3AA94DA73A@myhostname> Nov 17 11:40:02 ns1 postfix/qmgr[28742]: 3AA94DA73A: from=<smmsp@myhostname>, size=655, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 17 11:40:03 ns1 postfix/local[32433]: 3AA94DA73A: to=<justin@myhostname>, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=1.6, delays=0.17/0.06/0/1.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME) Nov 17 11:40:03 ns1 postfix/qmgr[28742]: 3AA94DA73A: removed
Seems that it gets delivered to Procmail and removed from the queue. Maybe Procmail not behaving itself? Here are the Procmail statements:
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log TRAP=/etc/webmin/virtual-server/procmail-logger.pl :0wi VIRTUALMIN=|/etc/webmin/virtual-server/lookup-domain.pl $LOGNAME :0 * ?/usr/bin/test "$VIRTUALMIN" != "" { INCLUDERC=/etc/webmin/virtual-server/procmail/$VIRTUALMIN } DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME DROPPRIVS=yes :0 $DEFAULT
Howdy,
Well, procmail should actually be logging everything it's doing -- you can see that log in /var/log/procmail.log.
However, the "DEFAULT" and "ORGMAIL" lines above look suspect, as they're typically pointing to "$HOME/Maildir/".
-Eric
Thanks Eric, Postfix / Procmail now working correctly. Yes, those procmail lines were inherited from the previous Sendmail install.