[svlug] cyrus delivery question (mailbox doesn't exist)

Erik Steffl steffl at bigfoot.com
Sat Oct 27 11:27:02 PDT 2001


  generally the mail seems to be delivered but there's a problem: when
the mailbox does not exist, the mail is not delivered.

  I mean in traditional unix mail spool the inbox for each user is
automatically created. When using cyrus deliver it looks like the email
just sits somewhere, not being delivered, at least that's what I think
the messages below say.

  is it possible to make cyrus send undeliverable mails to some account?
postmaster or something like that? Or what's the standard way to deal
with these?

  here's the relevant log (I haven't created mailbox for www-data).

Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/pickup[31015]: 407561D7A8: uid=33
from=<www-data>
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/cleanup[32129]: 407561D7A8:
message-id=<20011027181001.407561D7A8 at jojda.2y.net>
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/qmgr[25546]: 407561D7A8:
from=<www-data at jojda.2y.net>, size=527, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost deliver[32133]: checkdelivered: Unable to open
delivered db: <20011027181001.407561D7A8 at jojda.2y.net>: No such file or
directory
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/pipe[32132]: 407561D7A8:
to=<www-data at jojda.2y.net>, relay=cyrus, delay=0, status=bounced (user
unknown. Command output: www-data: Mailbox 
does not exist _ )
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/cleanup[32129]: 6C6EE1D7A9:
message-id=<20011027181001.6C6EE1D7A9 at jojda.2y.net>
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/qmgr[25546]: 6C6EE1D7A9: from=<>,
size=2139, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost deliver[32136]: checkdelivered: Unable to open
delivered db: <20011027181001.6C6EE1D7A9 at jojda.2y.net>: No such file or
directory
Oct 27 11:10:01 localhost postfix/pipe[32132]: 6C6EE1D7A9:
to=<www-data at jojda.2y.net>, relay=cyrus, delay=0, status=bounced (user
unknown. Command output: www-data: Mailbox 
does not exist _ )

  btw: ignore the deliver error message, I already fixed that.

  TIA

	erik




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