Re: relay_recipient_maps being ignored

From: mouss (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 15:09:13 EDT

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    Val Polyakov wrote:
    > Hello
    >
    > I am running postfix 2.4.5 here..
    >
    > The current setup is as follows: mail comes in to our "border" mail server
    > which scans it for spam/viruses and hands it off to an internal postfix
    > server
    >
    > The internal postfix servers utilize this:
    > local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
    >
    > So they reject all mail that goes to nonexistent accounts.
    >
    > However, I want the emails addressed to nonexistent emails to never make it to
    > the internal postfix servers, I want the border gateway to reject those...
    > but I also do not want to put our internal aliases file onto the "border"
    > postfix servers, in case they are ever broken into I do not want the
    > attackers to see our internal server names (border gateways are in the DMZ).
    >
    > So, I made a valid_emails file with a script, in the format of:
    > OK
    > (thats a tab between the email and the OK)
    >
    > I put the following directive in main.cf :
    > relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/valid_emails
    >
    > I also ran postmap hash:/etc/postfix/valid_emails and it created
    > valid_emails.db ..
    >
    > However, upon testing, the border gateway still relays the email to our
    > internal mail server (although the email address does not exist).
    >
    > I read these links (but I do not see what I did wrong):
    > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relay_recipient_maps
    > http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html
    > http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html#relay_domain_class
    >
    > Here's the output of postconf -n on the "border" gateway:
    >
    > -----------
    > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
    > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
    > command_directory = /usr/sbin
    > config_directory = /etc/postfix
    > content_filter = imss:localhost:10025
    > daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
    > debug_peer_level = 2
    > default_process_limit = 400
    > delay_warning_time = 6h
    > html_directory = no
    > inet_interfaces = all
    > local_recipient_maps =
    > mail_owner = postfix
    > mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
    > manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
    > maximal_queue_lifetime = 3d
    > message_size_limit = 15728640
    > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
    > mydomain = vmsinfo.com
    > myhostname = lpo-relay-03.vmsinfo.com
    > mynetworks = 127.0.0.1, 66.194.0.150, 66.162.41.162, 10.0.0.0/8,
    > 216.169.0.0/16
    > newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
    > qmgr_message_active_limit = 50000
    > queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
    > readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.10/README_FILES
    > relay_domains = $mydestination,vidmon.com, vidmon.net, vmsinfo.com,
    > sis-us.com, sis-na.com, vmsdigital.com, statewidemonitoring.com,
    > kirk.vmsinfo.com, r2d2.vmsinfo.com, prtrak.com, vmsads.com, vmsadsearch.com,
    > vmsnews.com, integratedperspective.com
    > relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/valid_emails
    > sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.10/samples
    > sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
    > setgid_group = postdrop
    > smtpd_banner = ESMTP Postfix with TrendMicro InterScan Messaging Security
    > Suite
    > smtpd_enforce_tls = no
    > smtpd_recipient_limit = 1000
    > smtpd_timeout = 300s
    > smtpd_use_tls = no
    > transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
    > unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
    >

    your logs should tell you that you should not list a domain in both
    relay_domains and mydestination.


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