[Mailman-Users] mailman not respecting /etc/postfix/transport ???

[Steve Wehr]

Hi Mark -- I think it is fixed....

I updated /etc/postfix/main.cf with
local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps $transport_maps

Then I sent out a mailing from a test mailing list I have that includes my
email address -- steve at tunedinweb.com. --> I received this mailing. YEAH!

I did look in /etc/passwd and /etc/aliases... and did find "tunedin" in
/etc/passwd, so is that why Mailman was able to deliver to
tunedin at tunedinweb.com ?? (I didn't find any of the other email addresses
listed in /etc/postfix/transport in either of those files, so I don't know
why some of those passed the telnet test and others did not)

FYI... steve at tunedinweb.com now passes the telnet test:

telnet localhost 25
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 tunedinweb.com ESMTP Postfix
MAIL FROM: <steve at tunedinweb.com>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: <steve at tunedinweb.com>
250 2.1.5 Ok
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

_____________________
Steve Wehr
Tunedin Web Design
845-246-9643


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:24 PM
To: Steve Wehr
Cc: Mailman-Users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman not respecting /etc/postfix/transport
???

On 09/10/2016 07:35 AM, Steve Wehr wrote:
> I tried almost all the email addresses defined in 
> /etc/postfix/transport
> 
> Many of them succeed in the telnet test below, but many of them fail. 
> There is no pattern I can find to success or failure. I thought maybe 
> there was some hidden characters in the file that were preventing the 
> hashing working when the file is compiled. So I was looking to see if 
> all the ones above a certain spot in the file failed, and all those 
> below succeeded, but that is not the case. Ideas?


Are the ones that work in /etc/passwd and or /etc/aliases and the ones that
fail not?


I wrote:
> Now, given that Postfix doesn't like steve at tunedinweb.com, the 
> question is what are the PHP scripts that mail to this address doing. 
> Are they connecting to this Postfix differently or even at all (maybe 
> they connect to mx.emailsrvr.com).


The answer to this may still be of interest.


> If you add
> 
> local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps 
> $transport_maps
> 
> to Postfix main.cf, I think that will work. This is actually only 
> adding $transport_maps as proxy:unix:passwd.byname and $alias_maps are 
> the defaults. This will ensure that none of the addresses in 
> transport_maps
> (/etc/postfix/transport) is rejected as an unknown local recipient.


Have you tried this? I think it will work. If the answer to my first
question above is yes, I'm sure it will work.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan