[Wylug-help] mail server problems

[Mike Goodman]

Roger Beaumont wrote:
> Mike Goodman wrote:
> <snip>
>>  Roger, are you doing all this from the command line, or are you using
>>  a hosting management app such as Webmin or ISPConfig? For instance,
>>  the latter sets up a special file for hosts (can't remember the name
>>  of it).
> 
> Well, CLI and from the GUI file-browser + gedit, but definitely by hand, 
> not using a configuration tool.
> 
>>  Also, in your old config, you would have had
>>  /etc/postfix/virtual with lines saying this complete address should
>>  be passed to this user's inbox but the domains themselves would each
>>  have a line like {mydomain.co.uk virtual}.
> 
> I could find nothing like this in the .cf files, old or new.  Have I 
> misunderstood?
> 
> Reading /etc/postfix/virtual on the two boxes shows every single line 
> commented out on both boxes.

Yes. You're using /etc/aliases. But within those commented out lines, 
are there any aliases -> users and are there any lines which 
specifically set the domains?

If so, I'd be tempted to try telling main.cf to use /etc/postfix/virtual 
- go to the bottom of the page, in mine it's the last couple of lines. 
Then in virtual enter for each domain you want the user(s) to have their 
mail served there a line {domain}{tab or space}{virtual} and that should 
get you running.
> 
>>  So my question is, other
>>  than in main.cf, where are you telling postfix which domains to
>>  handle user mail for?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge (obviously inadequate), nowhere, but I have 
> the spade ready if you tell me where to dig!  <grin>

That's where I'm stumped. I don't have an old instance still running, 
not using /etc/postfix/virtual, besides which my servers are 
Debian/Ubuntu so there may be some slight differences. I think you said 
CentOS, which is RH.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Roger
> 
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