[H-GEN] Postfix question.

[Ewan Edwards]

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Harry,

You have my sympathies.  

I've been going through an almost identical issue.  As a result I was really 
interested to see the responses to your original posting yesterday.  I too 
have read through the documents about virtual domains, transports, aliases, 
rewrites, etc., etc..  I even crawled my way through the Postfix anatomy - 
the receiving part about ten times.  All in all, it was a very confusing and 
frustrating experience.  I'm not looking forward to doing it again, but alas 
I must sometime soon.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not making negative criticism of Postfix or the 
Postfix documentation.  Postfix seems to be a very good application - its 
proved thoroughly reliable for me so far.  The documentation also seems well 
laid out and full of information.  My problem is my understanding of that 
information.  

I have very very little experience with mail systems and don't have any grasp 
of the associated terminology.  As a result, I too have become dizzy and 
nearly fallen off my chair when reading the doco.  I've even been known to 
exclaim out loud "That's all very nice, BUT WHAT THE #$*%& DOES IT ACTUALLY 
MEAN ?", and then start mumbling what seemed like the Swahili translation of 
Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Depending on what further responses appear on this thread, I may post my own 
plea for assistance.

Ewan

P.S.  
No, I haven't yet managed to solve my problem.  Until I have more time 
available, I'm grudgingly putting up with messages destined for local 
mailboxes going out to the upstream smtp relay and back.



On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:03, Harry Phillips wrote:
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> > Have a read of this...... http://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html
>
> I did, got dizzy, and nearly fell down. What does it all mean?
>
> I want the local users to be visible so can I use 'Sendmail-style' format
> even though I am using postfix? The reason I ask this is because of this:
> 'Local (i.e. non-virtual) usernames are not visible in a Postfix-style
> virtual domain.'
>
> Or could I configure /etc/postfix/virtual like this:
> userA at 4ward.com.au   billy at localhost.4ward.bogus
>
> The other confusing part:
> The virtual.domain anything entry is required for a Post-fix-style
> virtual domain.
>
> Does that mean I have a line that says
> '4ward.com.au anything' or am I supposed to replace the 'anything' part
> with something else? If so, what?
>
> Do I have run edit the /etc/postfix/virtual file and then run the
> 'postmap /etc/postfix/virtual' command?
>
> Does anyone have anything that explains this stuff more clearly, quickly
> before my head explodes.
>
> Regards
> Harry
>
>
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