I have a mail account set up that receives email fine.
Wanting copies of all emails to go to an off server account, I have set up mail forwarding. The email is still received, but I get an error returned to the sender:
This is the mail system at host alpha.???.com.
I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It’s attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
info@xxx.co.uk (expanded from
info@yyy.co.uk): User unknown in virtual alias
table
Final-Recipient: rfc822; info@xxx.co.uk
Original-Recipient: rfc822;info@yyy.co.uk
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; User unknown in virtual alias table
The mail log reads:
Jun 21 23:12:16 alpha postfix/smtpd[2918]: connect from mail-fx0-f223.google.com[209.85.220.223]
Jun 21 23:12:16 alpha postfix/smtpd[2918]: 11F0210337: client=mail-fx0-f223.google.com[209.85.220.223]
Jun 21 23:12:16 alpha postfix/cleanup[2922]: 11F0210337: message-id=b7b3b7e10906211512r37060129w574d8f5ee9e1f848@mail.gmail.com
Jun 21 23:12:16 alpha postfix/qmgr[1156]: 11F0210337: from=mr@googlemail.com, size=5417, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/local[2923]: 11F0210337: to=<info.yyy.co.uk@alpha.???.com>, orig_to=info@yyy.co.uk, relay=local, delay=6.2, delays=0.09/0.01/0/6.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME)
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/cleanup[2922]: 23324103D0: message-id=b7b3b7e10906211512r37060129w574d8f5ee9e1f848@mail.gmail.com
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/local[2923]: 11F0210337: to=<info.yyyy.co.uk@alpha.???.com>, orig_to=info@yyy.co.uk, relay=local, delay=6.2, delays=0.09/0.01/0/6.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (forwarded as 23324103D0)
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/qmgr[1156]: 23324103D0: from=mr@googlemail.com, size=5596, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/qmgr[1156]: 11F0210337: removed
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/error[2935]: 23324103D0: to=mr@xxx.co.uk, orig_to=info@yyy.co.uk, relay=none, delay=6.1, delays=6.1/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (User unknown in virtual alias table)
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/cleanup[2922]: 44D0B103D1: message-id=<20090621221222.44D0B103D1@alpha.???.com>
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/qmgr[1156]: 44D0B103D1: from=<>, size=7549, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/bounce[2936]: 23324103D0: sender non-delivery notification: 44D0B103D1
Jun 21 23:12:22 alpha postfix/qmgr[1156]: 23324103D0: removed
Jun 21 23:12:23 alpha postfix/smtp[2937]: 44D0B103D1: to=mr@googlemail.com, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.219.3]:25, delay=0.76, delays=0.01/0.01/0.28/0.46, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1245622343 3si11156965ewy.39)
Jun 21 23:12:23 alpha postfix/qmgr[1156]: 44D0B103D1: removed
Jun 21 23:12:46 alpha postfix/smtpd[2918]: disconnect from mail-fx0-f223.google.com[209.85.220.223]
??? is the vm server
yyy is the vm domain
xxx id the email forwarding domain.
I have had a search around the forums and can see this being reported befoe, however similar bits have.
thanks, in advance, for your help.