Thanks Yassine thats very helpful. Im going to modify the config to do
it all with virtual_alias_maps
On 27/03/2019 10:56, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
On 3/27/19 11:19 AM, Andrew Wood wrote:
What is the difference between setting up an alias in
virtual_alias_maps and virtual_mailbox_maps?
I can make alias@domain point to a mailbox by pairing it with the
path to the maildir in virtual_mailbox_maps but it seems if I do that
the alias can only point to one mailbox not multiple.
e.g
user@domain /path/to/user@domain/
alias@domain /path/to/user@domain/
this works OK but if I was to do
user1@domain /path/to/user1@domain/
user2@domain /path/to/user2@domain/
alias@domain /path/to/user1@domain/
alias@domain /path/to/user2@domain/
this doesnt work.
Hello Andrew,
I use commas to separate multiple recipients of one alias, like this :
alias@domain \t user1@domain, user2@domain, user3@domain
I think virutal_mailbox_maps and virtual_alias_maps shouldn't be
compared, they're different configurations.
virtual_mailbox_maps will tell postfix if a mailbox is valid or not,
this can be a query in your database with the e-mail of the user. If
the query returns a result then the user exists and postfix is happy,
otherwise postfix will bounce the e-mail to the sender saying the user
doesn't exist. virtual_alias_maps will tell postfix what aliases are
defined (what you want), so that for example abuse@domain is
redirected to both john and mary.
Yassine.
