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Mailman Postfix Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table;

Friday, May 14th, 2010

May 14 15:29:15 apel postfix/smtpd[13425]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[202.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 550 5.1.1 <milist@nixnux.or.id>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table; from=<usera@nixnux.or.id> to=<milist@nixnux.or.id> proto=SMTP helo=<usera>

I see the error log /var/log/mail.log in my ubuntu lucid 10.04 with ispconfig 3.0.2.1, postfix and mailman.

error above cause of :

  • mailman hasn’t hash alias_maps or virtual_alias_maps
  • mallfunction section of integration postfix with mailman

please try my solution :

check config file /etc/postfix/main.cf , make sure you have :

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alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
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virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_forwardings.cf, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_email2email.cf, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman
.
.

postfix build map and try reload postfix :

~# postmap /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
~# postmap /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman

~# /etc/init.d/postfix restart

~~Good Luck~~
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