I've asked this same question before, but I haven't received an answer/solution yet.
The following problem occurs when a catch-all should be forwarded to an external address : The email is only delivered locally to the catch-all account.
[using real data from my customer 'groenen.nl']
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# pwd /var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# ls -la total 352 drwx------ 5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 27 21:53 ./ drwx------ 13630 vpopmail vchkpw 331776 Mar 13 14:02 ../ -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 58 Jul 23 2002 .qmail-default -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 71 Feb 27 21:53 .qmail-postmaster drwx------ 3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 4 2002 kantoor/ drwx------ 3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Dec 4 2001 postmaster/ drwx------ 3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 25 2002 vakantie/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# less .qmail-default | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# less .qmail-postmaster
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] afterwhich it gets forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/log/maillog
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.724681 starting delivery 1085901: msg 2066388 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And in my log, I see:
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.718499 new msg 2066388
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.718611 info msg 2066388: bytes 848 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 15637 uid 0
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.724681 starting delivery 1085901: msg 2066388 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.724768 status: local 1/10 remote 8/20
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.738686 delivery 1085901: success: did_0+0+1/
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.738980 status: local 0/10 remote 8/20
Mar 13 16:18:39 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047568719.738995 end msg 2066388
It looks like that, even when there is an emailaddress in .qmail-default, the mail gets delivered localy.
From the vdelivermail manpage:
OPTIONS
[""]
Blank double quote for backward compatibility [default account for delivery]
If the email does match any .qmail-user file and also does
not match any virtual domain user, this is the default delivery
instructions. There are three values this may contain.
Full path to a vpopmail user directory
email address to forward email too
the string bounce-no-mailbox to bounce the email back
to the sender.
Default is the postmaster accountvpopmail version: /* Version number of package */ #define VERSION "5.2.1"
Is there something I've missed? Thanks in advance for any help/pointers.
-- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Jan Reilink
