Before upgrading Postfix (more than a year ago), I could create a mailbox with Cyrus admin, add the user name / password to the SASL database and send mail to the account right away. I would then go into aliases and add a long name version of the account. So this is what I would do:
After testing I would then edit aliases and add
I could then email the short or long name without issues.
Now when I attempt to send an email to joeb it says the user can not be found. I can email joe.blow just fine, and when I look at the logs I see joe.blow is converted to joeb before delivery (no issues).
If I want to email joeb I have to add
into the aliases table.
For some reason this doesn't seem right to me; having to add the long alias does because it's an alias to the short mailbox name.
Can someone help me figure out why this is happening? I read http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html and I get that having this defined forces you to define all your aliases, but should it also prevent mail from going to the main mailboxes (short names)?
If I blank out local_recipient_maps I can then once again deliver to mailboxes without having to add them to aliases, but then I assume this increases risk of all the bad that comes with this.
cm user.joeb(in Cyrus admin)saslpasswd2 joeb(add password)- email to joeb@companyname.com and it would work fine.
After testing I would then edit aliases and add
Code:
joe.blow : joeb (long name alias)I could then email the short or long name without issues.
Now when I attempt to send an email to joeb it says the user can not be found. I can email joe.blow just fine, and when I look at the logs I see joe.blow is converted to joeb before delivery (no issues).
If I want to email joeb I have to add
Code:
joeb:joebFor some reason this doesn't seem right to me; having to add the long alias does because it's an alias to the short mailbox name.
Can someone help me figure out why this is happening? I read http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html and I get that having this defined forces you to define all your aliases, but should it also prevent mail from going to the main mailboxes (short names)?
If I blank out local_recipient_maps I can then once again deliver to mailboxes without having to add them to aliases, but then I assume this increases risk of all the bad that comes with this.