Hi,

I just rolled out my first non-virtualhosted courier installation.

It runs on host.domain.com (hostname command output, also forward DNS points to the IP of this box, and this IP reverse-resolves to host.domain.com), has another A record for mx1.domain.com which is the MX record for domain.com. In my courier config, I have domain.com and host.domain.com in /etc/courier/locals. I do not have a "me" file. I have a Unix user "binand" on this box, and I get emails meant for bin...@domain.com just fine.

Now, the problem is that I added a few aliases to /etc/courier/system (mainly, for postmaster, abuse and mail). But I get, from makealiases -dump,

ma...@host.domain.com: ali...@host.domain.com

ie, there is no alias for ma...@domain.com. So courier tries to deliver to the FC2 Unix user "mail", which fails with the error

maildrop: Home directory owned by wrong user.

which is understandable, as the mail user's home diectory is /var/spool/mail owned by root.

How do I tell courier to append all entries in locals to all aliases in aliases/system?

Thanks,

Binand

PS: Incidentally, if dnsreports.com reports an error connecting to your courier server, it seems to be because of missing postmaster@ ID in the domain you are testing.