Postfix unable to find /etc/postfix/virtual file

[Amos Shapira]

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You need to execute "postmap /etc/postfix/virtual" after editing the file.



On 4 July 2013 20:48, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On an Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine, I've set up an email forwarder for
> a specific address in /etc/postfix/virtual: example at mydomain.com
> postfix-test at dotancohen.com
>
> The address postfix-test at dotancohen.com works and receives mail. When
> I send mail to example at mydomain.com I get this in the logs:
>
> warning: hash:/etc/postfix/virtual is unavailable. open database
> /etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory
> warning: hash:/etc/postfix/virtual lookup error for "example at mydomain.com"
> warning: 705B58190E: virtual_alias_maps map lookup problem for
> example at mydomain.com  -- deferring delivery
>
> Why might postfix be unable to find the /etc/postfix/virtual file?
>
> $ ls -la
> total 96
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Jul  4 08:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x 102 root root  4096 Jun 24 06:23 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   274 Jun 24 06:23 dynamicmaps.cf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  1549 Jul  4 08:46 main.cf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  5531 Jun 24 06:23 master.cf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 19707 Feb 20 20:03 postfix-files
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  8729 Feb 20 20:03 postfix-script
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 26498 Feb 20 20:03 post-install
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 20 20:03 sasl
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root    43 Jul  4 08:27 virtual
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   130 Jul  4 08:26 vmailbox
>
> $ cat virtual
> example at mydomain.com post-test at dotancohen.com
>
> $ cat main.cf | grep virtual
> virtual_mailbox_domains = mydomain.com
> virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts
> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox
> virtual_minimum_uid = 100
> virtual_uid_maps = static:5000
> virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
> virtual_alias_domains = fastupfront.com
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> # virtual_alias_maps = /etc/postfix/virtual # I tried without the
> 'hash:' prefix as well.
>
> Note that mydomain.com is anonymized. In fact, the domain name that is
> used in the files is a real domain name that does have its A and MX
> records pointed to the IP address of this server, and serving webpages
> with Apache works. The DNS records were changed last week, so I know
> that they have propagated.
>
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