postfix question

twk · 10-31-2004, 01:00 AM

Currently I have two domains pointing to my server. For example maindomain.com and otherdomain.com

I've setup virtual domain with postfix and email to somalias@maindomain.com is working but no on otherdomain.com

My config - (the only lines I changed/added from default debian sarge config)

Code:

In main.cf
virtual_alias_domains = maindomain.com, otherdomain.com
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

In /etc/postfix/virtual
somealias@maindomain.com userA
alias2@otherdomain.com userB

but otherdomain.com is not recieveing outside email (eg. gmail.com), however it's recieving internal email fine. Eg. when I am logged as root and send an email via mutt to alias2@otherdomain.com and it arrives to userB's inbox properly. Same test from gmail will fail, no error message...

Is this something wrong with my postfix config? or something else (DNS, server config...etc)

Thank you.

rpg · 11-01-2004, 01:52 PM

I don't have access to my full documentation right now, but I'm pretty sure the problem is that you must indicate what domains you will receive mail for in main.cf.

I believe that you need to set the configuration variable

Code:

mydestination

in order to make this work properly.

Alternatively, perhaps

Code:

virtual_alias_domains

is the right configuration variable.

These are both pretty well documented in the documentation that comes with postfix. Alternatively, see Postfix Virtual Domain hosting web page