Postfix: need help with luser_relay and local_recipient_maps

Curtis Doty Curtis at GreenKey.net
Fri Jan 19 07:27:44 UTC 2007


Tomorrow SERGIE said:

> 
> Need your help guys very much...
> 
> I have decided to switch to postfix from sendmail and now have the problems 
> which do not allow my system work as it should work.

Smart move. But don't leap before looking. And you will be rewarded.

> 
> Fedora Core 4.

Huh? This is outdated OS.

> 
> 1. I must be able to create mail users with postfix which are not UNIX users.
> I don't know how to do that, because local_recipient_maps must be empty (see 

RTFM at http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html for your options.

>
> 2. For incoming mail for users which COULD NOT be found in the postfix 
> database, postfix must relay such messages to another SMTP server, instead of 

Do no do this. Be a good netizen and learn how to reject invalid 
recipinets at your MX. And how well-meaning postmasters such as yourself 
fall into this trap. http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

Both of the above links and many more rich and helpful info can be found 
in the upstream sources or here: http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html

Enjoy!
../C




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