Ben Morrow ben@morrow.me.uk wrote:
At 9PM +0100 on 15/12/12 Andreas Meyer wrote:
Ben Morrow ben@morrow.me.uk wrote:
Before you go any further, please put the virtual_mailbox_maps parameter back with a map of the valid virtual addresses. Otherwise you'll become a backscatter source.
Do you mean the old virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox ? But wouldn't that mean I have to care for two user files? vmailbox and the passwd-file of dovecot?
It doesn't matter how you do it, but you need to reject invalid users during the SMTP transaction rather than allowing the mail to bounce later. (This is really basic stuff: have you read through the Postfix documentation? It make this pretty clear.)
Yes, this is clear to me and I also read through the dovecot-wiki a bit and especially LDA and LDA-Posfix. ;)
If you're using a passwd-file userdb in Dovecot, you need to write a script to convert it to a Postfix map, and make sure that script gets run whenever the source file is updated. (Makefiles are good for that sort of thing.) Alternatively, you could switch to keeping your userdb in an SQL or LDAP database, and have Postfix query it directly. If all else fails, you can arrange to pass the output of 'doveadm user "*"' to postmap, though depending on your Dovecot setup you may need to append a domain.
Thank you for your hints, Ben! I am glad I have that thing up and running at least. And I already converted the old vmailbox file that postfix used to a new one with the valid users so postfix knows them too.
Thinking about SQL or LDAP database is one of the next steps I am considering. We don't have that much users and taking care of them is not that much work.
Next thing is I want to implement Quota. We are running users with maildir and mboxes. And of course I want to realize sieve filtering soon or later.
I am glad I got this right now with your help. And learned much again.
Ben
Andreas