Le 29/06/2011 01:07, Jay G. Scott a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> This machine has a list of legitimate users but does not deliver
> mail locally. (It's a mail gateway.)
>
> Presently user schumi gets copies of his mail delivered to three
> systems. The three destinations are listed in virtual_alias_maps.
>
> schumi: sch...@inm.arlut.utexas.edu, sch...@ns8.arlut.utexas.edu,
> sch...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu
this is not a virtual alias. this looks like a "local" alias. for
virtual aliases, specify the full address (with the domain part) and do
not use a ':'.
>
> By management fiat, mail that is addressed incorrectly to
> sch...@nonexistent.arlut.utexas.edu
> should be delivered to sch...@arlut.utexas.edu. It is, but
> I get multiple copies. recipient_canonical_maps:
>
> /^schumi@.*\.arlut\.utexas\.edu$/ sch...@arlut.utexas.edu
why use canonical? use a virtual alias instead.
>
> From the logs I see that the alias gets expanded into three,
> and then canonicalized, so that each target gets three copies of the
> email.
virtual_alias_maps =
...
hash:/path/to/valias.hash
pcre:/path/to/valias.pcre
== valias.hash
# single line follows
sch...@example.com sch...@inm.arlut.utexas.edu,
sch...@ns8.arlut.utexas.edu, sch...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu
sch...@inm.arlut.utexas.edu sch...@inm.arlut.utexas.edu
sch...@ns8.arlut.utexas.edu sch...@ns8.arlut.utexas.edu
sch...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu sch...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu
== valias.pcre
/^scuhmi@.*\.arlut\.utexas\.edu$/ sch...@arlut.utexas.edu
>
> Obviously, I want to get rid of the duplicates.
>
> For outgoing mail I must avoid MX lookups as part of my
> load balancing and fault tolerance, so I must set relayhost.
> Only the official mail servers have MX records in DNS, so any
> other machines that accept mail must be listed in the transport_maps.
>
>
> postconf -n
>
