Re: Problems with $mydomain entries in virtual

* Michael <mth@mth.com>:

> >> @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
>

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