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From: Michiel v. B. <pos...@va...> - 2008-09-21 10:47:33
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On 02:38, Sun 21 Sep 08, Ian R. Justman wrote: > > Hi, all. > > I am working on prototyping a new mailserver to replace my aging machine > which runs a very old package. I will outline the problem I have below > on a step-by-step basis: > > 1. I create tables with the setup script as recommended. > > 2. It asks for information to define the superadmin account. In this > case, I use "pos...@re..." and then set a > password. > > 3. I log in via the super-admin account. > > 4. I create an e-mail address within the > "reisen.intranet.ian-justman.com" domain without a problem. > > 5. I go to "virtual lists" then create a new domain, call it > "test.ian-justman.com". This also happens without incident. > > 6. I create a new mailbox, "ia...@te..." and give it a > password. Program spits an error at me, saying "E-mail is invalid". > > 7. I try creating an alias in that domain, says "Alias is invalid". > > 8. I go into the MySQL monitor and manually insert an e-mail address > "ia...@te..." into the "mailbox" table with the same > format as the entry for "ia...@re...". No > biggie here. > > 9. I go through the Postfixadmin interface. It sees the e-mail just > fine. I try to create another mailbox, e.g. for my sister in the > "test.ian-justman.com" domain. Same error as before. > > I've even tried creating an admin in the "test.ian-justman.com" domain > to no avail. > Do you have an A and/or MX record in your dns for test.ian-justman.com ? If not, I think the check_domain function is not allowing you to create this mailaddress. You can set 'emailcheck_resolve_domain' to NO in the configuration file to prevent this from happening. -- Michiel van Baak mi...@va... http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" |
