From: William Pietri (williamscissor.com)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 13:13:49 CDT

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Wow! Speedy reply. Thanks.

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:51, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> The "-" processing anomaly with virtual mailbox domains in this old
> release is not the real problem. The real problem is that your domain
> is not listed in virtual_maps or virtual_mailbox_maps.

Hmmm... I find that puzzling, but that's surely due to my imperfect
understanding of Postfix. How is it that Postfix delivers it correctly
for mail from trusted networks, but denies it from untrusted ones? From
your comment, I'm guessing that the two kinds of delivery are handled
differently, but I don't know how that works.

For what it's worth, here is the related snippet from my main.cf:

        # handle virtual domains
        local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps unix:passwd.byname
        $virtual_mailbox_maps
        transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport,
        hash:/etc/postfix/vdomains
        virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
        virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vdomains,
        hash:/etc/userdb

Here are the interesting entries for the non-working domain and the
working one from virtual_maps:

        us-election.org maildrop:
        pota.to maildrop:

And here they are from virtual_mailbox_maps:

        postmasterus-election.org williamscissor.com
        abuseus-election.org williamscissor.com
        rootus-election.org williamscissor.com
        us-election.org catchallus-election.org
        pota.to catchallpota.to
        
As I mentioned, this same style of thing seems to work fine for my other
virtual domains, so I'm puzzled as to why this doesn't work for these
new ones.

> Postfix 2.x does not exhibit this anomaly.

Ah, ok. This, combined with your mention of a known bug regarding
dashes, suggests that my next step is to upgrade. I was hoping to avoid
that just now, but I'll try to look at it as an opportunity. :-)

Thanks for your help,

William

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