[Dovecot] Virtual Alias Forwarding

[Eric Biondi]

Mouse,

Thanks so much for your reply. It helped me understand the path mail takes
through the system. I did a little research and found alias mapping is
applied after amavis hands the message back to postfix. So after carefully
looking at master.cf I found a stray # found it's way into the line that
starts with -o receive_override_options=

My apologies to the list for misdirecting a postfix issue here

Eric 

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+eric=biondi.com at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+eric=biondi.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of mouss
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:01 AM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Alias Forwarding

mouss wrote:
> Eric Biondi wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with Dovecot and forwarding of aliases. Any help 
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> I'm using Postfix, Mysql, dovecot, amavis.
>>
>> mysql> SELECT * FROM alias;
>> | address | goto | domain | created | modified | active |
>>
>> It seems from the logs that incoming mail is being delivered to the 
>> mailbox via dovecot. Mail gets to the correct mailbox (address 
>> field), however, if I change the destination mailbox (goto) in the 
>> alias table in mysql, the mail still goes to the main mailbox 
>> (address).
>> mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf looks to be configured correctly but I'm
>> suspecting that dovecot is circumventing that file.   
>
> dovecot does not care about virtual aliases. These are a functionality 
> of postfix. The question belongs to the postfix list. post there, but 
> provide more infos:
> - output of 'postconf -n'
> - test lookups with postmap -q. for example
>    postmap -q mtb at domain.net
> mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf

and master.cf. My guess is that you disabled virtual aliases when setting up
amavisd-new filtering.