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Re: Virtual aliases: mails from outside not delivered

From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 05:27:16 CDT


On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at 12:12 CEST,
     Shin-Cheng Mu <scmipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

> I browsed through the mailing list for a while and noticed
> that a number of user reported similar symptoms. I'm not sure
> it's the same cause, however, and I would like to ask for your
> help.
>
> I was trying to follow the instructions on
>
> http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#forwarding
>
> to set up a virtual domain (say, vdomain.com) on my server
> and forward the email to webmastervdomain.com to another
> email address. However, only the emails sent from the localhost
> were delivered. Emails from other machines never arrived --
> there are no error messages or bounced emails either.

Is the DNS for vdomain.com properly set up? If your server is never even
contacted (despite listening to all interfaces) when an outsider tries
to send mail to vdomain.com, your problem has nothing to do with Postfix.

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