Hi,
Typically, postfix should resolve the aliases into user accounts that dovecot knows before you even start delivering to dovecot. You probably messed something up in the postfix config that disables alias expansion before dovecot delivery is attempted.
Can you show us your postfix config?
Kind regards,
TomOn 01-03-17 15:36, Ian Evans wrote:
Recently configured postfix to use the dovecot lda as I wanted to use sieve. Got that working a few days ago but noticed that I wasn't getting any emails to aliases. Checked the logs and saw messages like:
Mar 1 08:19:59 carson postfix/lmtp[16949]: 0DCD22016BE: to=< sales@example.com>, relay=carson.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.07, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (host carson.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 sales@example.com User doesn't exist: sales@example.com (in reply to RCPT TO command))
Aliases were working previously and are in /etc/postfix/vmaps
Anything I need to check on the dovecot end of things to get dovecot to recognize postfix aliases?
Thanks...reaching for my morning coffee. Info below:
Dovecot 2.2.9
# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir 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=%u /etc/dovecot/shadow driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = was automatically rejected:%n%r } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh }