I'm still having trouble getting users accepted by postfix + dovecot.
I have a few (<10) virtual users configured in a passwd-style file in /etc/dovecot/users. I can verify that dovecot sees those users and can authenticate them using 'doveadm' as well as IMAP.
I also have one system user configured via PAM. I can verify that dovecot sees this user and can authenticate using 'doveadm' as well as IMAP.
I configured the 'dovecot' service in /etc/postfix/master.cf and set /etc/postfix/main.cf to use it to deliver virtual mail, per the dovecot wiki. I also set the postfix local delivery command to dovecot-lda per the dovecot wiki.
I first tried telling postfix to not check local users by setting in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
local_recipient_maps =With this setup, mail is received and delivered for the system user, but mail to virtual users is bounced with 'unknown user':
postfix/local ... relay=local ... status=bounced (unknown user: "test")So then I tried to tell postfix that it had virtual users by configuring them in /etc/postfix/virtual_users and creating a hash using 'postmap' and then in /etc/postfix/main.cf setting
local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users $alias_maps
This made no difference at all. Mail to virtual users still bounces with 'unknown user' while mail to the system user is delivered.
So then I set 'mydestination' to an empty string in /etc/postfix/main.cf and set 'virtual_mailbox_domains' to the string that had been in 'mydestination', and set 'mydestination' to an empty string.
With this setup, mail to virtual users is delivered, but mail to the system user bounces with 'unknown user':
dovecot: auth: passwd-file(randy): unknown user
dovecot: auth: passwd-file(randy@domain): unknown user
dovecot: auth-worker(12538): passwd(randy@domain): unknown user
postfix/pipe[12548]: ... to=<randy@domain>, relay=dovecot ... status=bounced (user unknown)
My dovecot config:
# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ext4 auth_verbose = yes first_valid_gid = 120 first_valid_uid = 112 log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = mdbox:/local/mnt/mail/%n managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = username_format=%n driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = randy@domain protocols = " imap sieve pop3" ssl_cert =
My postfix config:
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no config_directory = /etc/postfix dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users $alias_maps mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -a "$RECIPIENT" -d "$USER" mailbox_size_limit = 0 mydestination = myhostname = ocean.qualcomm.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 readme_directory = no recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = mailhost.qualcomm.com smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated defer_unauth_destination smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache smtpd_use_tls = yes virtual_mailbox_domains = domain, ocean, localhost virtual_transport = dovecot
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