From: Doug Laidlaw (laidlawshotkey.net.au)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 07:46:43 CST

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According to a thread in 2003, I need a table local_recipient_maps, which I
don't have at all. The person there
http://groups.google.com.au/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/b8e714d14876992/7b8169360520b05%237b8169360520b05?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=1&num=3

seemed to be having the identical problem. His answer, after input by Wietse:

> > Do yourself a favor and get rid of the uppercase account name.

> > I get mail for wietse and WIETSE all the time, and if the MTA did
> > not fold case for local accounts then I would not be able to receive
> > my own mail.

> > Wietse

Robert Krueger:

> That was it, success!!! I changed to robert from Robert, pointed KMail
> to /var/spool/mail/robert, and changed /root/.fetchmailrc to "...is
> robert here". I just received all my mail. Good Lord, what a battle.

If i have a /root/.fetchmailrc, I don't look at it. I don't have any users
with u/c initials. Root is aliased to doug.

Doug.

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:18 pm, Erwan David wrote:
> Le Thu 2/02/2006, Doug Laidlaw disait
>
> > Thanks for the reply. I must have somehow deleted it.
> >
> > No, it isn't postfix. It is fetchmail. I was thinking that postfix
> > has its own sendmail, and a thread somewhere said to fix it in
> > sendmail. That got me in a mind fix that the answer was somewhere
> > in postfix.
>
> You can make postfix accept mails for localhost, by adding it to
> mydestination or virtual_mailbox_domains.

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