Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:56:28 Xavier Parizet wrote:
> J. Roeleveld a écrit :
> > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:49:37 Xavier Parizet wrote:
> >> J. Roeleveld a écrit :
> >>> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote:
> >>>> J. Roeleveld a écrit :
> >>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this
> >>>>> list knows how to do this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My current situation:
> >>>>> Postfix gets an email delivered for user X
> >>>>> Postfix passes this to cyrus (lmtp-transport)
> >>>>> if user X does not exist within cyrus, the email gets bounced.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I would like this bounced email to be delivered to a seperate cyrus
> >>>>> email folder.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I tried to find the answer on google, but all the solutions I found
> >>>>> either only work with the postfix local delivery agent (eg. not
> >>>>> compatible with cyrus) or requires a list to be maintained using all
> >>>>> the known email-boxes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I prefer a fall-back solution where an email directed at a user not
> >>>>> listed in either the alias table (stored in ldap) or not known to
> >>>>> cyrus is redirected to a specific cyrus mailbox.
> >>>>
> >>>> A solution could be doing a catch-all alias (see [1]) :
> >>>> if your domain is example.com, then add an alias mapping @example.com
> >>>> to oneaddress@example.com either using virtual alias or
> >>>> /etc/postfix/aliases .
> >>>>
> >>>> HTH.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html
> >>>
> >>> I did notice this option, but it would require me to duplicate the
> >>> alias table into a alias file. I tried setting a "@<domain>" entry in
> >>> my ldap-tree, but this did not work.
> >>
> >> If you use LDAP as a virtual backend, then [1] will then be a better
> >> place to look. Setting mailacceptinggeneralid ldap attribute to
> >> @<domain> seems to be the solution (if you use "standard" LDAP scheme).
> >>
> >> HTH.
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.postfix.org/LDAP_README.html#example_virtual
> >
> > I tried this, but when looking at the ldap logs, I notice that the
> > 'domain' part does not exist in the search string.
> > Eg. '%s' only shows the user, '%d' is empty, eg. query is ignored
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can force postfix to add the domain to the search
> > query?
>
> Is mydomain parameter set in /etc/postfix/main.cf ?

Yes, I believe this is necessary for postfix to actually accept emails?

Or how else do I get this configured?

Thanks,

Joost