BACKGROUND: A user uploaded a hostile PHP script as part of a WordPress style and a huge number of Spam emails were flung through my server, rendering that IP blacklisted as a mail source. Our provider Rackspace was very helpful here, and I made an emergency move to a new server on a new IP address.
I quickly realized that just trying to migrate all domains would exhaust my disk space (I had only 30% free space on the server) so I migrated one at a time - but I’m now believing that I failed to copy some system information that way.
Things pretty well worked almost immediately - for some reason, some people’s SQL passwords needed changing, I’m sure that’s because I didn’t do the whole shebang, but that was easily fixed.
I have the old and new server running “side by side” until everything is resolved.
PROBLEM:
A few people’s emails are still bouncing and I frankly have no idea what the issue could be.
I think it’s only what I call “dotted users” - people whose Unix user name and domain-specific user names are different.
My server is root.ax.to (.to is Tonga but I don’t live there :-D) and one of the users I’m having an issue with is stephan@oddnoise.com, whose Unix user name is stephan.oddnoise.
I see errors like this.
May 8 14:40:07 root postfix/error[10050]: AE27D20115: to=stephan.oddnoise@root.ax.to, orig_to=stephan@oddnoise.com, relay=none, delay=0.33, delays=0.31/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (User unknown in virtual alias table)
Now, I’ve grepped through /etc/ for stephan (very useful that he has a unique name) and the entries appear to be identical, so I’m rather at a loss to see what the issue could be.
As far as I know, everyone whose Unix name contains a dot in this manner is not getting email, and everyone else is - and all the settings (with /etc) seem to be identical.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!