Mail not rejected

Carsten Burghardt carsten at cburghardt.com
Fri Nov 14 20:56:55 CET 2008


Hi Alain,

Quoting "Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Carsten Burghardt
> <carsten at cburghardt.com> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I am a little confused about the postfix behaviour of my kolab 2.2
>> installation. I added several domains in the kolab web frontend. The default
>> distribution lists are then created for postmaster, abuse and so on.
>> I have added myself to the adressbook and added some aliases like  
>> "cb" to the
>> list. When I send an email to an invalid/unknown username like
>> nonsense@<mydomain> then the email is not rejected by postfix but it passes
>> through to postmaster. Where does that catch-all entry come from and how can
>> I get rid of it? I have no entries in my virtual table so that must be a
>> result of the ldap query I assume.
>> SuSE 10.3 with their Kolab packages.
>
> you can query your ldap for that
>
> postmap -q nonsense@<mydomain> ldap:/kolab/etc/postfix/ldapvirtual.cf

It returns nothing.

I tested some usernames and noticed an (for me) inconsistent  
behaviour. A mail to mail at mydomain is accepted whereas  
nonsense at mydomain is rejected. I have not created an alias entry for  
"mail" that is for sure.


Carsten




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