Piping Email with Postfix

Question

I'm trying to set up a pipe for a specific email address. I'm following what I see here, but after newaliases I get the following:

postalias: warning: /etc/postfix/aliases, line 1: name must be local

My /etc/postfix/aliases:

pipe@example.com: "| /usr/bin/php -q /home/path/to/file/pipe.php"

When I try sending an email it returns deliverable. What am I doing wrong?

example.com probably does not match your local domain. – ceving Jul 17 '12 at 16:27 — ceving, Jul 17 '12 at 16:27
Is example.com in your local hostnames list? – Marc B Jul 17 '12 at 16:59 — Marc B, Jul 17 '12 at 16:59

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '12 at 17:01

From the Postfix aliases(5) man page:

  o    An alias definition has the form
            name: value1, value2, ...
The name is a local address (no domain part). Use double quotes when the name contains any special characters such as whitespace, #',:', or `@'. The name is folded to lowercase, in order to make database lookups case insensitive.

To forward email for arbitrary domain addresses, read about virtual(5) instead.

Piping Email with Postfix

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