[Falkirk] Mandrake9.2+Postfix

mcclung at freeuk.com mcclung at freeuk.com
Fri Feb 27 11:11:42 GMT 2004


I dont have a line in main.cf that refers to virtual_maps i do however 
have this one if that is relevant at all 
local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
or do i have to add the line

virtual_maps to my main.cs file 



> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:21:33PM +0000, 
mcclung at freeuk.com wrote:
> > Hi I wander if anyone can help I have been having a great deal of 
> > difficulty setting up incoming mail to my domain name with postfix. 
I 
> > have finaly managed to get a message through to the user postfix 
but 
> > mail to any other user is being rejected with the error Temporary 
> > lookup failure; any help with this would be greately appreciated as 
i 
> > have been strugling with this for a while now..
> 
> I'm afraid we're going to need more details than that to be very 
helpful.
> 
> But for postfix you should have a line like
> 
> virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> 
> in main.cf
> 
> then in virtual you need a line declairing the domain then lines
> following that saying where the e-mail is to go
> 
> mydomain.example.com mydomain.example.com
> foo at mydomain.example.com mylocaluser
> bar at mydomain.example.com forward at address.example.com
> @mydomain.example.com anotherlocaluser
> 
> then compile the virtual file and tell postfix to read the changes
> 
> sudo postmap /etc/postfix/virtual ; sudo postfix reload
> 
> Jonathan Riddell
> 
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