I am running cyrus 2.1 on OpenSusu 11.0. A couple of days ago I tried to install ispCP and it ending up trash my email. I restored everything in /etc/postfix where ispCP had changed a load of files, but unfortunately that did not correct all of my problems.

I have several domains with multiple users, most of which deliver to a few local address. For example,

joe@domain1 delivers to joe
admin@domain1 delivers to joe

fred@domain2 delivers to fred
admin@domain2 delivers to fred

larry@domain2 delivers to larry
admin@domain2 delivers to larry

What is happening now is that all of the email intended for local user is delivered to a single user (e.g. larry). Email that is redirected to an external user (e.g. mike@linuxquestions.org) works fine. Email to non-existent users fails, as expect.

I tried deleting the mail box for one of the users and re-creating it, but the problem continues.

I have looked through many HOWTOs, web pages and man-pages, but I cannot find any configuration options that addresses this kind of thing. I am very new to cyrus but pretty strong with Linux. I would appreciate any help people can provide.

Hi,

It's not cyrus, but postfix responsible of delivering mail. Take a look at this howto (it's written for debian but it applies in any distro), to see how to configure virtual users in postfix

Regards

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Not cyrus? I just learned something. That is always a good thing. I will look though that howto right now. Thanks!

I went through the howto step-by-step, but I could not find anything I was doing wrong. Conceptually everything the same, just the file names were different. I was going to reply and say the files were the exact same as before the problem. However, that is not entirely true, I changed the main.cf to this:

mydomain = domain1.com
myhostname = mail.domain1.com
myorigin = domain1.com

because domain1.com is the real domain of the server (per 'domainname'). In /var/log/mail,info I was seeing this:


Jul 17 09:33:18 sonne postfix/pipe[5982]: F0DA7282C0D5: to=<garion@domain1.com>, orig_to=<donnovan@domain2.com>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.69, delays=0.55/0.01/0/0.12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)


When I restored the files to the *real* originals (e.g mydomain = domain3.com), I got this:

Jul 17 10:44:27 sonne postfix/pipe[10142]: B327D282C0BF: to=<donnovan@domain3.com>, orig_to=<donnovan@domain2.com>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.36, delays=0.24/0.01/0/0.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)


What I don't understand is the mechanism that sent all email to garion@domain1.com. Both garion and donnovan are real local users, so it might make sense if the system tried to redirect donnovan@domain2.com to donnovan@domain1.com, but it doesn't make sense that it is redirected to a completely different user (garion@domain1.com).

Any ideas?

Without the config files, I can only think that garion@domain1.com is a catch-all address for domain1.com.

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