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Subject: [Urgent] Need help Sendmail -> Postfix
From: Oliver Schade (schadembi-berlin.de)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 12:05:52 CDT

Hi everybody,

today we switched our main mail-server to a new linux-system. We prepared
a Sendmail 8.10.2-system - but it fails after bootup. After some hours of
playing around with sendmail, we used a 'rm -rf /usr/local/src/sendmail*'
and decided to switch to Postfix.

Well - but even Postfix does not run the same way we have had before :-(
So we have some hundreds zones with can not receive emails at the moment -
any help is really welcome ;-)

Our configuration (we followed the INSTALL-file from postfix 20000531)
for a virtual-server which runs under smtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net.
A typical zone within the /etc/postfix/virtual-file looks like this:

[...]
ls-la.net Anything
osls-la.net Els-la00
spls-la.net Els-la01
mhls-la.net Els-la02
avatarls-la.net Els-la03
[...]

this seems to work. Now I need an additional

ls-la.net Els-la00

to collect all unwanted mails and silly addresses. I tried to include this
line, but this fails (but I do not know why) with 'User unknown'. Now I
followed the virtual_rexpr-directive and added

/^ls-la\.net$/ Anything
/^(.*)ls-la\.net$/ Els-la00+$1

and enabled this in main.cf, restarted postfix. Now mail to
'infols-la.net' will be accepted, but not delivered. The mailq-Queue
contains the undeliviered email:

6CD9078A0 388 Wed Jun 21 15:16:50 osls-la.net
                                                  (alias database unavailable)
                                     Els-la00+infosmtp1.bln-de.serverpool.net

A alias-file exists and is enabled into main.cf:

[rootsmtp1 postfix]# ls -la /etc/aliases*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 21 17:13 /etc/aliases -> postfix/aliases
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 21 17:13 /etc/aliases.db -> postfix/aliases.db

[rootsmtp1 postfix]# grep alias main.cf
[...]
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
[...]
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/majordomo.aliases

So what is wrong with my installation? *Any* help, tips, hints are really
welcome...

Thanks a lot,

Oliver