From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 09:50:45 CDT

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On Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 16:28 CEST,
     Alex Loots <a.lootsitsec-ss.nl> wrote:

> I am trying to set up Postfix + Maildrop to deliver mail for hosted
> domains with recipients that don't have UNIX home directories. The mail
> must be delivered into a shared-folder on the local system. In order to
> do so I have created a shared folder "test": maildirmake -s write -f
> test /usr/local/share/maildirs and changed the owner to vuser (see
> master.cf).
>
> The file /etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps (see postconf below) contains
>
> the following entry:
> testtestdomain.com test
>
> The file /etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_domains contains:
> testdomain.com.
>
> Tesdomain is NOT mentioned in the "mydestination domain" or the
> "virtual ALIAS domain".
>
> When I send an e-mail to testtestdomain.com I get a "Invalid user
> specified" error message.

You have not configured maildrop correctly. maildrop does not know about
the users specified in virtual_mailbox_maps, so you must configure some
other source. I believe maildrop can be made to read the same DB or DBM
maps as Postfix, and MySQL and LDAP are other possible sources.

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Magnus Bäck
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