[Dovecot] Deliver, sendmail, virtual users, and catch-all addresses

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Thu Jan 17 12:15:15 EET 2008


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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Eric Loyd wrote:

> thought that it might work by adding @mydomain.com to virtusertable,
> but sendmail sees the "user not found" return from deliver as the MDA
> and bounces the mail to postmaster.
>
>  Mail from user at external.com to foobar at mydomain.com (invalid)
>    Deliver to catchall - spam at otherdomain.com

How did you set up the catch all? I thought you specify a virtuser entry 
like:

@mydomain.com	spam

then have a "real" spam account to drop the mail to. You can alias "spam" 
or whatever.

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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