Hi all, I have a postfix with mysql and courier that I set up a long time ago following https://library.linode.com/email/postfi ... an-5-lenny, which works fine. I've tried setting up forwarding as described here https://workaround.org/book/export/html/58 but it's not working, I suspect because I already have a 'real' inbox at the address I want to forward. It'll probably make more sense if I show you...

posftix config has:
virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_email2email.cf

the forwardings table in mysql has:
abuse@mysite.com dave@mysite.com
(etc. - all these local forwards have always worked fine)
dave@mysite.com dave@gmail.com (which I added today)

the users table has:
dave@mysite.com (password)
(etc.)

postmap -q abuse@mysite.com mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf returns dave@mysite.com (as you'd expect)
postmap -q dave@mysite.com mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf returns dave@gmail.com

...But emails are not being forwarded to dave@gmail.com.

Ideally I'd like emails to continue to be available via courier on my server but *also* be forwarded to dave@gmail.com. If not possible, I need to be able to continue to run postfix/courier as is for other accounts, but need dave@mysite.com forwarded to dave@gmail.com without too much upheval to the other accounts/setup I have on the box.

Much thanks in advance for any pointers.

Dave

I'm still trying to get this working. It looks from various web pages like I should be able to add

sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_bcc
recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recp_bcc

to main.cf, then in those files sender_bcc and recp_bcc have:
me@mylinode.com me@gmail.com

Then run postmap /etc/postfix/recp_bcc; postmap /etc/postfix/sender_bcc; service postfix restart

But no luck - no bccs to gmail, and not a sausage in mail.log or mail.info about it.

Any ideas please?

You might be able to generate extra logging using the debug_peer_list config option, or by starting the cleanup daemon with the -v option to make it more verbose. If Postfix is seeing the mail as being generated internally, it won't add automatic BCC recipients; that might be what's happening, or maybe something else.