I have my own email server, and I'd like to be able to use dynamic email address tagging. I added the recipient_delimiter = +-
directive to my config and restarted postfix, but now if I email [email protected]
for example, the email will be bounced with the error "Unknown User". If I email [email protected]
, the email is delivered to the webmaster
account as expected.
Here's my postfix config:
## These are all default Postfix settings that we won't change
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
inet_interfaces = all
mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-mail-stack-delivery.conf -m "${EXTENSION}"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
myorigin = /etc/mailname
readme_directory = no
recipient_delimiter = +-
relayhost =
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
## Settings below this line are things we're modifying or adding
## Your mail server identity options
myhostname = mail.starbeamrainbowlabs.com
#mydestination = localhost, starbeamrainbowlabs.com,
# localhost.starbeamrainbowalabs.com
# 89.107.190.141 = cross-code central
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/24 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 89.107.190.141
## Customized smtpd paramters
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP
smtpd_helo_required = yes
smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/helo_access
#reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname,
reject_invalid_helo_hostname,
#reject_unknown_helo_hostname,
#warn_if_reject, # warn us instead of actually blocking them
permit
smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
#reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_sender_login_mismatch
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_unknown_client_hostname,
reject_unknown_sender_domain,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
reject_unauth_pipelining,
reject_unauth_destination,
reject_invalid_hostname,
reject_non_fqdn_sender
smtpd_sender_login_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps
## Dealing with rejection: use permanent 550 errors to stop retries
unknown_address_reject_code = 550
unknown_hostname_reject_code = 550
unknown_client_reject_code = 550
## customized TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_ask_ccert = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/chain/www-mail.starbeamrainbowlabs.com.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/key/decrypted/www-mail.starbeamrainbowlabs.com.key
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
smtpd_tls_ciphers = high
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
## Customized Dovecot and virtual user-specific settings
canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
home_mailbox = Maildir/
message_size_limit = 104857600
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual-mailbox-domains
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual-mailbox-users
virtual_transport = dovecot
## This setting will generate an error if you restart Postfix before
## adding the appropriate service definition in master.cf, so make
## sure to get that taken care of!
dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
## Customized milter settings
milter_default_action = accept
milter_connect_macros = j {daemon_name} v {if_name} _
non_smtpd_milters = $smtpd_milters
smtpd_milters = inet:127.0.0.1:11444 unix:/opendkim/opendkim.sock
## Other customized mail server settings
default_destination_concurrency_limit = 5
disable_vrfy_command = yes
relay_destination_concurrency_limit = 1
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtp_tls_security_level = may
From /etc/postfix/master.cf
, I have this defining Dovecot:
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
-f ${sender} -d ${recipient}
I also have definitions for ifmail
, bsmtp
, scalemail-backend
, mailman
, uucp
, scache
, maildrop
, and a bunnch of others, but I'm not entirely sure what they all do.
Does anyone know what is going on here and how I can fix it please?
I'm using virtual mailboxes.
In
/etc/postfix/master.cf
configuration file, ensure that the definition ofdovecot
service, referenced byvirtual_transport
configuration parameter, is set to suppress the extension part of the recipient address during the call to/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
.For example, this may not work because
${recipient}
will be expanded to[email protected]
by Postfix's pipe(8) service:The
${recipient}
macro should be replaced by${user}@${domain}
in this scenario, so that Dovecot delivery agent receives the correct address[email protected]
in its command line:Reference: https://wiki1.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix
Multiple characters in
recipient_delimiter
parameter seems to be supported in Postfix 2.11 or newer only. Ensure that you are either running a recent Postfix version or, alternatively, use only one delimiter character.From postconf (5) man page: