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Re: undelivered mail problem

From: aio shin (aioshingmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2007 - 20:10:38 CDT


On 9/11/07, Noel Jones <njonesmegan.vbhcs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:24:43PM -0800, aio shin wrote:
> > hi list
> >
> > I have this undelivered mail bounce message.. I just change the original to
> > mydomain for posting here.
> >
> > *Final-Recipient: rfc822;
> > **giovanni.claveriamail.mydomain.com*<giovanni.claveriamail.mydomain.com>
> > *Action: failed
> > Status: 5.0.0
> > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: "giovanni.claveria"*
> >
> > Now, am not sure, why the user became unknown., the user has entry at
> > virtual alias map file, say
> > /etc/postfix/virtual contains below:
> >
> > *giovanni.claveriamail.mydomain.com* <giovanni.claveriamail.mydomain.com>
> > *giovanni.claveria *
> > #this entry will deliver the messages to giovanni locally, on the said host.
> >
> > The problem happened randomly, because it normally delivers on its mailbox,
> > there should no problem at all, but at random time, it just happens, some
> > users becomes unknown for a random time then it goes back to normal again.
> >
> > Any idea how I should fix this.?
> >
> > Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Your mail is hard to read due to mangling by gmail.
> Please press the [Plain Text] button when posting from gmail.
>
> As a general rule, virtual aliases should have a fully qualified
> domain name as the result. This prevents surprises.
>
> instead of something like:
> giovanni.claveriamail.example.com giovanni.claveria
>
> use instead:
> giovanni.claveriamail.example.com giovanni.claverialocalhost
>
> and make sure "localhost" is included in the main.cf mydestination
> parameter (assuming you want local delivery).
>
> If you need more help, please see:
> http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail
>
> --
> Noel Jones
>

THanks, I will try that, the localhost part., and thanks also for
reminding on plaintext button., I will feedback later after observing
what will happen next.