On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:59:28PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

| On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:56:20PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
|
| > Jul 1 15:55:12 rack4 postfix/qmgr[6337]: 72025F5: from=<philipal.net>, size=508, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
| > Jul 1 15:55:12 rack4 postfix/smtpd[6364]: disconnect from vega.ipal.net[209.102.192.64]
| > Jul 1 15:55:12 rack4 postfix/local[6367]: 72025F5: to=<ka9wgnrack4.intur.net>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "ka9wgn")
|
| At least we now know that "local" is involved.
| Wasn't the whole idea NOT to use "local" but some other LDA, like
| "virtual"?

Obviously I've picked the wrong concept here. If "local" and
"virtual" can't be the same thing, I'm not sure how to get this
done.

When a very basic simple one-host setup is done, I don't have to
use a map which translates a username to path (file for mailbox or
directory for maildir). So why should it be different for virtual?
Oh I know, because of the traditional kludge to fake virtual that
originated with sendmail, where userdomain was translated to a
local system user. But I don't need that. If local can deliver
to /var/spool/mail/${user} why not allow something to deliver to
/var/spool/vmail/${domain}/${user}. This would be such a simple
concept and not need a map file (but certain you can have one that
can override the default for the cases where you want something
different done).

It looks like what I need to do is abandon virtualizing on this
server, and address how I want to set up the NEXT project. It seems
figuring things out is going to take more time than I thought. The
next project does have more time, though not enough time to develop
a new MTA for it. Now would it be better for me to try to figure it
out and have others fix my mistakes, or explain it up front and let
you tell me what concept in Postfix matches up to it (if any)?

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