Define catch-all email address

Timotheus Pokorra timotheus at pokorra.de
Wed Oct 23 11:24:49 CEST 2013


Thank you Toke!
Your reply helped me to find this page:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-postfix-catch-all-email-accounts/

it works fine now!
Thanks,
  Timotheus

On 23 October 2013 11:01, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> Timotheus Pokorra <timotheus at pokorra.de> writes:
>
>> But in case the customer wants it, how would I configure it? I can see
>> on the mykolab FAQ (https://mykolab.com/faq#catch-all) that it must be
>> possible, but I have no idea where to configure this, even manually?
>
> You can configure it manually by creating a 'virtual' file and pointing
> postfix to it, e.g. by adding hash:/etc/postfix/virtual to
> virtual_alias_maps, and putting a line like this into it:
>
> @example.org catchall at example.org
>
> and running `postmap /etc/postfix/virtual` on it.
>
> That should turn catchall at example.org into a catchall address for
> example.org. The catchall address doesn't have to be in the domain, of
> course; and I do believe the full address is looked up first, so it will
> not take precedence.
>
> Presumably, the static file could be replaced with some sort of
> automatic lookup based on one of postfix's normal mechanisms for this,
> but haven't tried it...
>
> -Toke


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