Problem with recipient_canonical

I want to replace, on receipt of a mail, an alias adress by adresses listed
upon this alias.
So, I use a recipient_canonical table called from main.cf
The syntax is :
aliasname1 username1, username2, username3, username4
aliasname2 username5, username6...
....

The incoming message is received normally but the problem is that only the
first username receive the message
Probably I have a syntax problem ?
Who can help me and give me instructions to find the good way ?

Thanks for help

BV wrote:
> I want to replace, on receipt of a mail, an alias adress by adresses listed
> upon this alias.
> So, I use a recipient_canonical table called from main.cf
> The syntax is :
> aliasname1 username1, username2, username3, username4
> aliasname2 username5, username6...
> ...
>
> The incoming message is received normally but the problem is that only the
> first username receive the message
> Probably I have a syntax problem ?
> Who can help me and give me instructions to find the good way ?
>
> Thanks for help


You are confusing "canonical" with "alias".

canonical maps are used to rewrite individual recipient
addresses one by one, in the email headers, in order to make
the address syntax correct (address mapping). Example:

@olddomain.com @newdomain.com
user@domain.com user@machine.corp.domain.com

Alias maps are used to redirect mail to one or more recipients.

More specifically, alias_maps are used when the domain name of
the original recipient is local, and virtual_alias_maps used
when the original recipient domain is either local or remote.

References:

man 5 canonical
man 5 aliases
man 5 postconf

--
Greg

BV wrote:
> I want to replace, on receipt of a mail, an alias adress by adresses listed
> upon this alias.
> So, I use a recipient_canonical table called from main.cf
> The syntax is :
> aliasname1 username1, username2, username3, username4
> aliasname2 username5, username6...
> ...
>
> The incoming message is received normally but the problem is that only the
> first username receive the message
> Probably I have a syntax problem ?
> Who can help me and give me instructions to find the good way ?
>
> Thanks for help
>
>


You are confusing "canonical" with "alias".

canonical maps are used to rewrite individual recipient
addresses one by one, in the email headers, in order to make
the address syntax correct (address mapping). Examples:

canonical_maps:
@olddomain.com @newdomain.com

sender_canonical_maps:
user@machine.corp.mydomain.com user@mydomain.com

recipient_canonical_maps:
user@mydomain.com user@machine.corp.mydomain.com


Alias maps are used to redirect mail to one or more recipients.

More specifically, alias_maps are used when the domain name of
the original recipient is local, and virtual_alias_maps used
when the original recipient domain is either local or remote.

References:

man 5 canonical
man 5 aliases
man 5 postconf

--
Greg

"Greg Hackney" <hackney@swbell.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> BV wrote:
>> I want to replace, on receipt of a mail, an alias adress by adresses
>> listed upon this alias.
>> So, I use a recipient_canonical table called from main.cf
>> The syntax is :
>> aliasname1 username1, username2, username3, username4
>> aliasname2 username5, username6...
>> ...
>>
>> The incoming message is received normally but the problem is that only
>> the first username receive the message
>> Probably I have a syntax problem ?
>> Who can help me and give me instructions to find the good way ?
>>
>> Thanks for help
>
>
> You are confusing "canonical" with "alias".
>
> canonical maps are used to rewrite individual recipient
> addresses one by one, in the email headers, in order to make
> the address syntax correct (address mapping). Examples:
>
> canonical_maps:
> @olddomain.com @newdomain.com
>
> sender_canonical_maps:
> user@machine.corp.mydomain.com user@mydomain.com
>
> recipient_canonical_maps:
> user@mydomain.com user@machine.corp.mydomain.com
>
>
> Alias maps are used to redirect mail to one or more recipients.
>
> More specifically, alias_maps are used when the domain name of
> the original recipient is local, and virtual_alias_maps used
> when the original recipient domain is either local or remote.
>
> References:
>
> man 5 canonical
> man 5 aliases
> man 5 postconf
>
> --
> Greg
>
>
>
Ok, You are right, I have confused these two items. I try according your
instructions.
Thanks Greg for your help on this matter.

BV

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