[Kroupware] Rebuilding Postfix Aliases

[Stephan Buys]

The format in the virtual map should be:

operator at foo.bar	someuser1 at foo.bar	someuser2 at foo.bar

You can use the postmap utility with the -q paramater to test your map.

On Friday 27 February 2004 12:51, Stefan Lang wrote:
> But, then there is another bug or feature :-)
> 
> I want to send one mail to multiple users, for example a mail to 
> "operator at foo.bar" should be delivered to "someuser1 at foo.bar" and 
> "someuser2 at foo.bar".
> I've smuggled some more aliases via LDIF-File into the LDAP-Database, and  
> looked into virtual.db. 
> The mail could only be delieverd to someuser1 at foo.bar because kolab only 
> generates entries in "virtual" like that:
> 
> operator at foo.bar  someuser1 at foo.bar
> operator at foo.bar  someuser2 at foo.bar
> 
> So postfix finds the first matching entry and aborts its seek!
> 
> The "correct" entry should be:
> operator at foo.bar  someuser1 at foo.bar, someuser2 at foo.bar
> 
> I'm using the wrong mechanism? Please excuse me, when I'm totally wrong!
> 
> Stevie
> 
> 
> Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 10:31 schrieb Stephan Buys:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The alias.template is a mistake. Postfix can do three kinds of deliveries.
> >
> > local (using mailboxes/maildirs with Postfix's Mail Delivery Agent)	- uses:
> > aliases virtual (use something else, like transport maps, lmtp, etc. this
> > is what Kolab does) relay (relay_domains, etc.)
> >
> > So in summary, aliases is only used with the Postfix MDA and is not used by
> > Kolab, as we use LMTP.
> >
> > On Friday 27 February 2004 11:22, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> > > On Monday 23 February 2004 22:09, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > This will send anything sent to spam at foo.bar to the postfix transport
> > > > > called spam.
> > > > > (This was adapted from the Postfix FAQ (regarding sending faxes:
> > > > > http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#faq
> > > >
> > > > Cool that seems to have worked.  I have to tweak it some yet, but I
> > > > think im at the point of having dspam work out of the box here with
> > > > email addresses that will allow me to train the bugger. Now to document
> > > > and post the howto
> > >
> > > TIA for the Howto. :-)
> > >
> > > BTW, as the Kolab admin web frontend allows only one alias (AFAIK), I
> > > used the etc/kolab/aliases.template file to propagate additional aliases.
> > > I've also found that the etc/postfix/aliases is not generated by kolab,
> > > this is documented in Kolab issue 9.
> > > In the issue tracker, there is a hint to better use virtual.template
> > > instead. Well, I'm not familiar with the difference. (Perhaps somebody
> > > can give a short explanation.) But if virtual.template is recommended,
> > > what's the reason to have aliases.template at all?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andreas
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