Re: Problems with $mydomain entries in virtual

>> However, I wanted to do some additional aliasing of my.domain, so I pu=
t
>> 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.

Yes, exactly ... the postfix man aliases(5) says exactly that

I have been running that way for years.

>> 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???

I expected 'jane@mydomain.com' to go to the bitbucket ... that mailbox
does not exist

I expected that the virtual entry

jane@otherdomain.com jane

would send mail to local user 'jane' ... as it does in the aliases file
and as it does in the sendmail virtusertable

I did not expect that this entry would turn into 'jane@mydomain.com',
which sent it to the bitbucket.

>> 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!

I did *not* list mydomain.com in virtual_alias_domains ... the
documentation clearly says that is incorrect and it would not make sense
to do so.

Therefore, there was no screaming in the logs.


Michael