I am in need of serious help. I have been on Google, Stackoverflow, Postfix's website and numerous forums. I am officially stuck, I even tried to replicate another machine's config files.
The Problem:
I am trying to set up Thunderbird to catch postmaster emails. I want to do this using Postfix.
There is a site hosted through Apache on localhost, dev1.testdomain.com and dev2.testdomain.com.
Typically localhost and dev2.testdomain.com points to the same hosted application (Mono… Not Important).
There is a web.config file for each hosted application, in there we can set an attribute that points to the postmaster email address. Typically that email address will be the same as the one set up in Thunderbird which receives all the postmaster emails.
Further information:
Postmaster email needs to be: postmaster@mycomputer.com
Computer name: developmentmachine
Administrator User Account: developer
I tried doing a "Maildir" type setup and can not get that working.
Can anyone please give me a step by step instruction on how to implement something like this?
Please do not post links to other websites, as I have tried about all of them on Google and could not get it working.
Or can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
What i have currently:
/etc/aliases
postmaster: developer
/etc/mailname
mycomputer.com
Postfix standard internet site installation.
/etc/postfix/main.cf
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
append_dot_mydomain = no
readme_directory = no
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
myhostname = developmentmachine
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = mycomputer.com, developmentmachine, localhost.localdomain, localhost
relayhost =
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = all
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command =
luser_relay = postmaster@mycomputer.com
notify_classes = bounce, 2bounce
Any help will be much appreciated, I have tried everything now.
Thank you in advance.
UPDATE: Got it to copy files into Maildir/, still having issues getting it into Thunderbird.
Tried installing and configuring Dovecot and no luck.
Best Answer
I can't give you a definitive answer because there are a lot of things at play here. But I can offer a couple of approaches to help you help yourself:
Attack from the top:
Work on the application/configuration till you witness it dropping mail into the mail log. I'd do something like
tail -f /var/log/mail.login one window and play with the appconfig and whatever it is that trigger the email in another. When you see the mail appear in the log then you know your app is sending mail to the right place.Attack from the bottom:
Work on configuring postfix to route email to the postmaster. Bypass the app by using mailx or telnet, to drop mail into the queue and keep playing around with it until it delivers the mail as you seek.
Be self-conscious of where you are on the learning curve:
Given the absence of any mention seems you might not appreciate the difference between postfix - an MTA - and an MDA. MailDirs is a form of MDA - which postfix - the MTA delivers to.
So in all you've got a lot of different components. MDA, MTA, Application, Apache, Mono. If you want to win this battle you may well have to break 'em down, understand, and test and solve each piece of the puzzle separately, before getting the end-to-end solution.