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I have a cyrus mailbox called user/nrahl. If I use the 'mail' command, from the server itself, and type:

mail nrahl

to send a message, the message magically shows up in my Thunderbird IMAP inbox. But I need to get message from a POP3 account into Cyrus for delivery, and the messages comming in are addressed to "nrahl@mydomain.com".

I have fetchmail setup and running, and it's downloading messages from the POP3 account, and passing them into Postfix. Postfix (now that I've got aliases set up in /etc/alias) is accepting the message, and passing it to the Cyrus socket.



But here's the problem: Cyrus is rejecting the message with a 550 - mailbox unknown error.



The actual message in /var/log/mail.log is:

Apr 17 16:56:57 IMAP cyrus/lmtpunix[5640]: verify_user(user.fetchmail) failed: Mailbox does not exist
Apr 17 16:56:57 IMAP postfix/lmtp[5561]: CFFD61556BD: to=, relay=localhost[/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp], delay=0.08, delays=0.07/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (host localhost[/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox unknown.  Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command))



It looks like it's trying to forward all of nrahl's mail to postfix@localhost, instead of nrahl@localhost, and I don't know why. I need it to forward mail addressed to nrahl@mydomain.com into Cyrus's "nrahl" mailbox.

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Go it!

Ok, so when your using fetchmail, you define the "alias" (local user name) in the fetchmail configuration (/etc/fetchmailrc) not in /etc/aliases. Use the smtpname directive.

Example:

set syslog;
set daemon 60;

poll "mail.server.com"
with protocol pop3
user "nrahl@mydomain" password "12345" is "nrahl@localhost"
fetchall
smtpname "nrahl@localhost"
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