Hi all,

How exactly does one configure maildrop to know the mappings specified in the postfix virtual_mailbox_maps file? I followed the postfix+maildrop howto:

http://www.postfix.org/MAILDROP_README.html

but the result is:

Aug 5 21:51:39 hostname postfix/pipe[3088]: 23066246EE: to=<postmaster@hostname>, relay=maildrop, delay=0, status=bounced (user unknown. Command output: Invalid user specified. )

Manually, same result:

[root@rimumail new]# cat /tmp/email |maildrop -V 5 -d postmaster Invalid user specified.

Mail delivery and everything works great until I add the lines maildrop_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = maildrop

My configuration is just as in that howto; main.cf:

... virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual virtual_mailbox_domains = firstname_lastname.com firstname2_lastname2.com firstname3_lastname3.com virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox ...

#/etc/postfix/virtual #there are some mail aliases here which forward to another MX #because the users are not Unix users so they don't have a #$HOME/.forward user1@firstname_lastname.com fo...@another.domain.tld user2@firstname_lastname.com bl...@yet.another.domain.tld

#/etc/postfix/vmailbox firstname@firstname_lastname.com name1/Maildir firstname2@firstname2_lastname2.com name2/Maildir lastname@firstname_lastname.com name1/Maildir

A copy of that information is here:

http://bliki.rimuhosting.com/space/maildrop+notes

This is Postfix 2.2.10 and maildrop 2.0.4 on RHEL4.

[root@rimumail new]# maildrop -v maildrop 2.0.4 Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. GDBM extensions enabled. Maildir quota extension enabled. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See COPYING for additional information.

There must be something simple that I'm missing! Does anyone have a pointer in the right direction?

Thanks in advance, Alex