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Got an idea in an old postfix's mailing list thread, asked there, got a hint and found a solution:
My new thread in postfix's mailing list archive:
https://marc.info/?t=153418143900005&r=1&w=2
Thanks,
Michael
Am 13.08.2018 um 17:19 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hi all,
>
>
> hopefully not too off-topic, but I could imagine that some getmail users have had this situation before and might
> remember their solution:
>
> I'm using (and loving :-)) getmail for syncing my email accounts at commercial ISPs (like the sender address of this
> email, [email protected], a yahoo account) to my own VPS, with dovecot and postfix on it.
>
> The getmail part itself works fine and stable, but I recognized an ugly self-made side effect today, for the first time:
>
> Let's say my VPS' domain is EXAMPLE.COM, one of my private email addresses might be [email protected].
> To get my postfix server to accept both "direct" emails (for [email protected]) and "getmail-ed" emails (for
> [email protected]), I've currently added "rocketmail.com" as (postfix) "virtual domain". As said, works fine for
> receiving "getmail-ed" mails.
>
> BUT, today I wanted via Thunderbird to send an email from sender [email protected] to [email protected].
> And Thunderbird immediately shows me the postfix error msg "5.1.1 / Recipient address rejected. User unknown in virtual
> mailbox table". So currently my postfix server, listening secured for relaying my emails, "remembers" that he's also
> listening unsecured (on port 25) to receive emails for "virtual domain" rocketmail.com.
>
> Any hints how to tell postfix that he shouldn't try to catch all emails for a virtual domain, but only the ones for
> existing (getmail) virtual users?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
>