Wietse Venema: > However, when luser_relay handes mail for a non-existent recipient, > and it is configured with a non-existent local user, then the local > delivery agent will go through the same code path twice with the > same address, in which case the duplicate suppressor will silently > terminate the recursion like it does for all other deliveries. > > This may or may not be easy to fix. For now, don't configure > luser_relay with a non-existent address, just like postmaster, if > you don't want errors to go unreported.
Easy enough: I was able to fix this on the train. If luser_relay specifies a non-existent local address, then the luser_relay feature becomes a black hole. This was introduced three months after the first public release, on 19990302. This patch should apply to every supported Postfix release. Wietse diff '--exclude=man' '--exclude=html' '--exclude=README_FILES' '--exclude=INSTALL' '--exclude=.indent.pro' '--exclude=Makefile.in' -r -ur /var/tmp/postfix-3.4-20180222/src/local/unknown.c src/local/unknown.c --- /var/tmp/postfix-3.4-20180222/src/local/unknown.c 2015-01-11 15:30:20.000000000 -0500 +++ src/local/unknown.c 2018-03-06 17:06:17.477496641 -0500 @@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ #include "local.h" +#define STREQ(x,y) (strcasecmp((x),(y)) == 0) + /* deliver_unknown - delivery for unknown recipients */ int deliver_unknown(LOCAL_STATE state, USER_ATTR usr_attr) @@ -140,6 +142,13 @@ state.msg_attr.unmatched = 0; expand_luser = vstring_alloc(100); local_expand(expand_luser, var_luser_relay, &state, &usr_attr, (void *) 0); + /* Assumes that the address resolver will not change the address. */ + if (STREQ(vstring_str(expand_luser), state.msg_attr.rcpt.address)) { + dsb_simple(state.msg_attr.why, "5.1.1", + "unknown user: \"%s\"", state.msg_attr.user); + return (bounce_append(BOUNCE_FLAGS(state.request), + BOUNCE_ATTR(state.msg_attr))); + } status = deliver_resolve_addr(state, usr_attr, STR(expand_luser)); vstring_free(expand_luser); return (status); @@ -149,8 +158,6 @@ * If no alias was found for a required reserved name, toss the message * into the bit bucket, and issue a warning instead. */ -#define STREQ(x,y) (strcasecmp(x,y) == 0) - if (STREQ(state.msg_attr.user, MAIL_ADDR_MAIL_DAEMON) || STREQ(state.msg_attr.user, MAIL_ADDR_POSTMASTER)) { msg_warn("required alias not found: %s", state.msg_attr.user);