Temporary Lookup Failure

skeeved skeeved at skeeved.org
Sun Jan 17 20:26:03 UTC 2016


You had an /etc/postfix/virtual and then you removed it from main.cf?

Did you restart postfix or do postfix reload afterwards?

The log entry shows postfix is still looking for that map file.

> On Jan 17, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Brad <bradzynda42 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Have a CentOS 7, dovecot and postfix setup.
> 
> Can get mail via 995 SSL/TLS
> 
> Can send mail to virtual users and auto creation works using /etc/dovecot/passwd file via mail command.
> 
> Using the dovecot lmtp and can login via 465 but the user lookup fails via postfix.
> 
> 
> in postfix main.cf have virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp
> 
> in dovecot.log I am seeing no errors
> in dovecot-info.log no errors either
> 
> in maillog I am seeing:
> postfix/smtps/smtpd warning hash:/etc/postfix/virtual is unavailable open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db No such file.
> 
> Note: I did go through creating the virtual.db and associated files but figured that it cant be correct as I want lmtp to handle it and it didn't work anyways, so I removed it.
> 
> 
> NOQUEUE reject RCPT from unknown[x.x.x.x] 451 4.3.0 <user at domain> Temporary lookup failure from=<user at domain> to=<user at domain> proto=ESMTP helo=<localhost.localdomain> -- obfuscated
> 
> Tried every article I could find on the Internet to resolve this with out much luck.
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated or if you need specific config details just let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad


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