[TriLUG] mailman/postfix integration problem with bounce-processing

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Thu Aug 21 11:08:48 EDT 2003


Christopher L Merrill wrote:

> The bounce-messages are being rejected by Postfix:
>   Aug 21 10:26:06 mydomain postfix/smtpd[6799]: 1C03673B74: reject: RCPT
>    from ncmx03.mgw.rr.com[24.25.4.97]: 450 
> <test-bounces+cmerrillx=nc.rr.com at mydom
>   ain.com>: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<> to=<test-boun
>   ces+cmerrillx=nc.rr.com at mydomain.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<ncmx03.mgw.rr.
>   com>
>
> This, honestly, doesn't suprise me.  I don't see how they could possibly
> be delivered with that addressing scheme.  Is there some special wildcard
> processing that should be enabled in Postfix to allow those addresses
> to be resolved to the "test-bounces" address that appears in the mailman
> aliases file?

I've not had this problem.  You do need to make sure that postfix is set 
up to read the "mailman aliases file".  Of course I usually copy those 
aliases directly to the main /etc/postfix/aliases file and run newaliases.

Joseph





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