Re: Problems with $mydomain entries in virtual

* Michael <mth@mth.com>:

> However, I wanted to do some additional aliasing of my.domain, so I put
> them in /etc/postfix/virtual:
>
> michael@mydomain.com mth
> miguel@mydomain.com mth
>
> @mydomain.com bitbucket # defined in aliases as /dev/null
What for? Lose that entry altogether.

> jane@otherdomain.com jane
> sally@otherdomain.com sally123@hotmail.com
>
>
> Mail is sent to jane@otherdomain.com
> The mail log indicates that messages addressed to the local user jane get
> mapped to jane@mydomain.com

Show logs

> Since jane@mydomain.com does not explicitly exist in the virtual file her
> message gets routed to the bitbucket :-(

Yes. So why do you use the "@mydomain.com bitbucket"
entry. What did you expect???

> If I remove my 'mydomain' entries from the virtual file then jane's
> message gets delivered locally.

Don't list a domain in virtual domains AND mydestination. Postfix
screams about this in the log!

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