lmtp rejecting mails for valid mailboxes

[Ramprasad]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:50 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I don't seem to see lmtp here at all.
> Your MTA seems to reject these mails on SMTP layer.
> 
relay=202.162.229.40[202.162.229.40]:24,

That is the lmtp relay on the remote server. 
I already have the userlist in hash dbs . As I said it works most of the
times but sometimes randomly lmtp bounces a mail

Thanks
Ram




> Most probably your MTA can not know which mailboxes cyrus has and that's
> why it rejects all mails, because local users are no system user, but by
> using cyrus, they are pure virtual. So the mails don't hit lmtp delivery
> to cyrus at all.
> 
> You should use local_recipient_maps for all users which are in cyrus.
> These maps can reside in a file or in a mysql or in an ldap server and
> the program which creates new accounts could update this table
> automatically. In my case, this is webcyradm who does this for me in mysql.
> 
> http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html
> 
> Best,
> Daniel
> 
> On 10.10.2006 16:01, Ramprasad wrote:
> > I just configured my cyrus server to accept mails directly from my
> > remote postfix server  over lmtp 
> > 
> > Everything seems to work fine but sometimes lmtp gives strange errors
> > like 
> > 
> >  to=<X>, orig_to=<X>, relay=202.162.229.40[202.162.229.40]:24,
> > delay=0.26, delays=0.25/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (host
> > 202.162.229.40[202.162.229.40] said: 550-Mailbox unknown.  Either there
> > is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have
> > authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO
> > command))
> > 
> > 
> >   When actually the mailbox is valid. The same mail sent again reaches
> > the mailbox without problems. 
> > 
> >   What could be the reason. The cyrus server is highly loaded most of
> > the time could that be a reason. 
> > 
> > Anyway I dont want lmtp failures to bounce the mail , can I send a 450
> > instead of 550. Because I am already ensuring the mailbox exists before
> > accepting the mail.
> > How do I configure this on postfix or lmtp ? 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Ram
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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