Hello folks, I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out. I'm fairly new to postfix and I thought I had it all set up correctly, but I can't get it working completely.

Basically, if I email user@domain.com (substituted with a real domain name that I have set up) I get the following message:

So I know the postfix program is up and running, but for some reason it isn't accepting my message.

Here's my main.cf file:


In the /etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox.txt file, I have entries such as the following, and the permissions of the file are owned by root and are set with -rwxr--r--. The contents of the file is:


Elsewhere I saw that the output of postfix -n is more useful, so here is the output from that command:


I am running Debian Sarge and the latest version of postfix.

If anyone can help me get my virtual mailboxes working I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Shawn

You have specified virtual_alias_maps to be a database file of type hash - but it is a text file.

postmap hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox.txt

will produce /etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox.db which should then be referenced in your main.cf

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/ Peter

Actually, I tried that and it gives me the following error. It looks like the .db extension is automatically added by Postfix:



I am starting to wonder if the problem might be elsewhere. In my log file I see it trying to forward the email on to an address that looks like it's on the internet rather than localhost, so I'm going to do some more testing.

If you see anything else wrong or anyone else has suggestions I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Shawn

I'm able to accept email now, and the only change I made was to move my "main" domain name to the mydestination portion of my main.cf file. I don't know why that works, but it does. The problem seems to be that in the virtual mailboxes, it would try to forward to a local account that was giving me the fully qualified domain name for some reason, and would not find that. My "user@domain.com" address was working fine.