virtual isp address, local delivery

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Wed Jun 7 08:59:49 EEST 2017



On 07.06.2017 01:18, Hugh Bragg wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how to deliver mail to an address locally
> which is popped from my isps email account.
>
> I access and keep these emails backed up on dovecot and use postfix
> smtp to deliver mail.
>
> The problem is that while fetchmail uses dovecot lda directly, postfix
> can't include my isps domain in its $mydestination because I won't be
> able to send mail to other users in that domain.
>
> I want to be able to send mail to other users I'm popping for in that
> domain, or even send myself mail.
>
> Currently postfix just relays the mail to the isp and it returns
> through fetchmail, but I'd like to have it delivered locally and still
> be able to email my isp users that I don't pop.
>
> As far as I can tell, this can't be done because virtual users have to
> be in postfix $mydestination.
>
> Does someone have a better setup they can share or know how to do this?
>
>
> Hugh

Perhaps you should list it as virtual_mailbox_domain then?
http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_mailbox

Aki


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