# Error creating first VS

**URL:** <https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/error-creating-first-vs/30971>\
**Category:** Help! (Home for newbies)\
**Created:** [November 8, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/error-creating-first-vs/30971 "2008-11-08T02:45:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tbirnseth](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@tbirnseth](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/tbirnseth)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/error-creating-first-vs/30971/1 "2008-11-08T02:45:19Z")

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Tried to create my first server but it failed due to Outgoing address mapping file for Postfix (sender\_connical\_maps). The page says to configure it in the modules area but I can’t find where to do so and probably have no idea what to set it to.

Any clues?

tony

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**Author:** ![ronald](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@ronald](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/ronald)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/error-creating-first-vs/30971/2 "2008-11-08T11:26:52Z")

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Im not sure about sender\_canonical\_maps  
but what I had to do to get things working was go under webmin-servers-postfix mail server  
click "edit config files" (right pane) and all the way below add: virtual\_alias\_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/error-creating-first-vs/30971/3 "2008-11-08T15:47:35Z")

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Ronald is close, but canonical maps is a different option.

You need:

sender\_canonical\_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical

Or, you can simply disable the outgoing address mapping feature in Virtualmin (it helps to insure that mail sent from your system has the right "From" address…so if you have scripts that send mail, for example, it _might_ be useful).

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**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/error-creating-first-vs/30971/4 "2020-04-30T05:30:54Z")

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Closed on April 30, 2020, 5:30am UTC