User unknown in virtual alias table

[Julian Field]

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I'm not in the mood for battling against Postfix today. Still recovering
from last night. Came downstairs to find a partially-eaten pizza and
garlic bread, still in their Pizza Hut boxes, in the fridge. I have
absolutely no idea how they got there.
I can only assume that it is connected with the fact that my credit card
was by the front door :-)

Drew Marshall wrote:

> Morning Julian!
>
> Time for your reminder :-)
>
> Drew
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Remind me about this one tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Drew Marshall wrote:
>>
>>> Rodney Green wrote:
>>>
>>>>> What is mail2? Is that an alias for mail4? (i.e. they are the same
>>>>> machine)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mail2 is an alias for mail4.. they both point to the same machine.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which way would you like to go, virtual or local?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think virtual for no other reason then I have used it for a long
>>>> time
>>>> now and have scripts that use it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've had a longer look at this now and I think you have found a little
>>> bug for Julian to add to his work stack :-(
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>> How are you forwarding the spam to Postfix? It looks like you just
>>> dumping the output into the out going queue? If so it is not being
>>> cleaned up and aliases resolved by either the pickup or trivial-rewrite
>>> processes so the qmanager just bounces the mail as undeliverable. I
>>> have
>>> tried it on my system here and proved it. If you specify a local
>>> address
>>> or alias as the forward address it works fine (No aliasing required so
>>> the qmgr just delivers it), if you specify a virtual domain address it
>>> gets bounced. The clue is here in the log:
>>>
>>> Mar  8 08:43:53 proxy postfix/error[17012]: 832783132D:
>>> to=<rgreen at trayerproducts.com>, orig_to=<unknown>, relay=none, delay=6,
>>> status=bounced (user unknown in virtual alias table)
>>>
>>> Notice the orig_to line is unknown. That should have the original to
>>> address in it and the to= should be the aliased address (i.e. where it
>>> is being delivered to).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help Drew!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No problems
>>>
>>> Drew
>>>
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