Postfix: Not delivering messages with recipient delimiter

[schlimpf]

Hi,

i already reported my problem on stackoverflow here but I think this is a plesk problem.

Description of my problem:

I have set the postfix configuration recipient_delimiter = + so that E-Mails to [email protected] are delivered in my [email protected] mailbox.
When I try to send Mails to the address with the delimiter, the mail is not apperaing in my mailbox, nor is it being delivered into my catchall mailbox (whereas [email protected] and also [email protected] are).

In the logfiles it says:

Nov 18 11:13:47 xxxxxxx postfix-local[6109]: cannot chdir to mailname dir myname+test: No such file or directory
Nov 18 11:13:47 xxxxxxx postfix-local[6109]: Unknown user: [email protected]
Nov 18 11:13:47 xxxxxxx postfix/pipe[6093]: 1AB8A2FE0903: to=<[email protected]>, relay=plesk_virtual, delay=0.27, delays=0.2/0/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via plesk_virtual service)
Nov 18 11:13:47 xxxxxxx postfix/qmgr[5791]: 1AB8A2FE0903: removed

I though it may be a problem with the forward_path, but I think it is correctly set:

forward_path = $home/.forward${recipient_delimiter}${extension}, $home/.forward

The problem may be the following:

The plesk_virtual service has returned "successful delivery" (process
exit status 0) to Postfix, therefore Postfix deletes the queue
file.

Instead, the plesk_virtual service should have returned "user
unknown" (process exit status 67) to Postfix. Process exit status
codes are defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h.

(Found here)

Thanks

// EDIT: I found this forum post: http://forum.parallels.com/showthre...-with-recipient-delimiter&p=708246#post708246 Is it possible that this issue is known for 5 years and could not be resolved yet? I dont think that this is a big deal

 

[IgorG]

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?291092

We have corresponding feature request regarding recipient_delimiter = + support (#93086 for your reference) but I haven't got a clue about ETA.
You can vote here for recipient_delimiter:

https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/...an-option-to-deliver-email-addressed-to-verp-
https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/...06-allow-customization-of-etc-postfix-main-cf

 

[Eyeonall]

I migrated to a plesk server a few days ago and just noticed that the bounce processing for some of the mailing list apps stopped working since they used verp. I have managed came up with a work around, although I am not entirely sure if it would not get overwritten with an update.

Add to the bottom of the main.cf:
recipient_canonical_classes = envelope_recipient
recipient_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/recipient_canonical_map


and created a regex map file /etc/postfix/recipient_canonical_map containing:
/^(.+)\+.+@(.*)/ ${1}@${2}

The caveat is that is does not bounce non-existent addresses... which, from a dictionary attack POV, might not be too entirely bad.

Curious if the Plesk folks might see an unforeseen problem..

 

[LennardF1989]

Just figured I'd share this, this is actually really easy to get to work. The problem with the identifier is that the plesk-virtual mail delivery system is going to look for a directory with the plus-address in it, rather than falling back to directory without an identifier.

Just open up /etc/postfix/master.cf, scroll down to:

plesk_virtual unix - n n - - pipe flags=DORhu user=popuser:popuser argv=/usr/lib/plesk-9.0/postfix-local -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -p /var/qmail/mailnames

Now replace "${recipient}" with:

${user}@${nexthop}

Restart all mail related services and you're ready to go!

 

[schlimpf]

Well, as far as I know these files are not supposed to be edited because Plesk will overwrite them

 

[NaSOnWeb]

HEllo
may be we can use a script to replace the line with a cron like

#!/bin/bash

OLD_REGEX="plesk_virtual unix - n n - - pipe flags=DORhu user=popuser:popuser argv=\/usr\/lib\/plesk-9\.0\/postfix-local -f \${sender} -d \${recipient}"

NEW="plesk_virtual unix - n n - - pipe flags=DORhu user=popuser:popuser argv=\/usr\/lib\/plesk-9.0\/postfix-local -f \${sender} -d \${user}@\${nexthop}"

sed -i "s/$OLD_REGEX/$NEW/g" /etc/postfix/master.cf