[Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with?postfix?

Thomas Leuxner tlx at leuxner.net
Thu Apr 22 21:07:20 EEST 2010


Am 22.04.2010 um 17:03 schrieb Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH):
> So a valid recipient must be in the passwd file and in the postfix virtual 
> alias file? This does not solve the problem of using the same flat-file user 
> database between doevecot and postfix, and of course int that case you can 
> define a virtual_mailbox_map as well, which works well (no kludge like 
> aliasing an address to itself to terminate recursive alias expansion) and is 
> semantically correct.

In order to use the same file for 'smtpd_sender_login_maps' yes. If you wouldn't want to use them you may drop the self-aliasing part I guess (untested).

> * reject_unverified_recipient, the address verification mentioned below

Added to the Wiki. This at least works for the LMTP-Server and will not fire an NDR.

Thomas



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