Catch-all with LMTP and Postfix

Michael Starks dovecot at michaelstarks.com
Tue Aug 23 01:36:49 UTC 2016


On 08/22/2016 02:00 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:

> Seems you accidentically replied to me only.

Yup, whoops.

> Postfix uses the filename you provide as name for the db file, so
> running it against symlinks does follow the symlink, but it uses the
> symlink name as what it uses to create the .db file.
>
> You can test this by creating file and doing symlink for it and running
> postmap against the symlink. You'll see that it will create
> symlink-name.db file instead of file.db.

Also good to know, although it seems like odd behavior. I would think 
that if Postfix followed the link then the corresponding .db would also 
be of the followed filename. No matter, I removed the link to simplify 
things.


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