In postfix I'm trying to setup a catch-all address for unknown local accounts. Any mail that can be delivered to a local user should be delivered to their local mailbox (and respect any aliases in /etc/aliases, both for local aliases as well as aliases that forward mail to the outside). Any mail for a user that does not exist in /etc/aliases or /etc/passwd should be redirected to root. For root I've setup an alias in /etc/aliases to redirect to a separate mail address admin@companydomain.com (not on the local server).
To achive this I've set in main.cf:
luser_relay = root
local_recipient_maps =
Other settings I have tried for luser_relay are:
admin@companydomain.com
root@localhost
root@localhost.localdomain
root@--server hostname--
root@$local
--other user with no alias--
--other user with no alias--@localhost
--other user with no alias--@localhost.localdomain
--other user with no alias--@--server hostname--
--other user with no alias--@$local
But I keep getting a user lookup error (when sending a mail to a non-existing test user with mail -s test test):
Jan 4 14:08:03 test postfix/pickup[28595]: A4E3382454: uid=--uid-- from=<--local user-->
Jan 4 14:08:03 test postfix/cleanup[29192]: A4E3382454: message-id=<20150104140803.A4E3382454@--server hostname-->
Jan 4 14:08:03 test postfix/qmgr[28596]: A4E3382454: from=<--local user--@--server hostname-->, size=456, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 4 14:08:03 test postfix/local[29194]: warning: error looking up passwd info for test: No such file or directory
Jan 4 14:08:03 test postfix/local[29194]: A4E3382454: to=<test@--server hostname-->, orig_to=<test>, relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0.01/0/0/0, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (user lookup error)
If there's a solution in which the catch-all address is set admin@companydomain.com that's fine, but I'd prefer it to be redirected to root and honor /etc/aliaseses so that when I need to change admin@companydomain.com I only have to do it in /etc/aliases and not also in another postfix configuration file.
My postfix version is 2.10.1 (CentOS 7) and besides the above luser_relay and local_recipient_maps I've added a recipient_bcc_maps and transport_maps.
Perhaps my transport map interferes with luser_relay?
/.*@localhost(\.localdomain)?$/ local:
/.*@--the server's hostname--/ local:
/.*@--company domain-- relay:
/.*/ discard:
The purpose of the transport map is to deliver any local mail, allow mail to be sent to the company domain, but discard any other mails. The recipient_bcc_maps is setup to bcc all mails discarded in the transport map to a debug address. Also the alias for root in /etc/aliases falls in the --other domain to not discard--. Since this concerns a development server I want any local mail to be delivered as such, and also deliver any mail addressed to the company domain, but prevent any other mail from being sent to the outside world.
The output of postconf -n:
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = localhost
inet_protocols = all
local_recipient_maps =
luser_relay = root
mail_owner = postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.10.1/README_FILES
recipient_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/recipient_bcc
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.10.1/samples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
transport_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/transport
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
Anybody who can spot the error in my configuration?
Thank you!
