Re: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table


Recipient address rejected: User unknown in loc...
\ stephane lepain (11 Mar 2008)
. \ mouss (11 Mar 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	11 Mar 2008

stephane lepain wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am new to Postfix. I greet you all. I am a small company and I am
> the only one in it. That is why I have to do everything by myself and
> therefore learn how to use postfix and DNS.
> Let me first apologise if I am not clear enough sometimes as IT is a
> need but I have no formal training in it.
>
> I have installed and configured DNS. So I have a FQDN on my server. I
> then installed postfix in order for me to be able to send email with a
> new smtp server with my company domain name called memoria.fr
> I thought I had everything under control when I tried to send my first
> email from my new smtp server with the domain name memoria.fr I get
> the error message as followed
>
> *"Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table"
> *
> I made a copy of my main.cf and master.cf file. In case I made
> mistakes in regards to the error message above. I am using debian
> testing on an amd64 with postfix 2.5.1-1. I assumed that my smtp
> emails from my internal mail server memoria.fr would have to bounce
> off my ISP mail server in that case orange.fr That is why I have put a
> relayhost = orange.fr.

As explained in the list welcome message, you need to follow the
directions in
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail

In this case, you need to post
- relevant logs. please do not truncate log lines.
- the output of 'postconf -n' (and not main.cf)

To be able to send mail to a local user, that user must exist as a unix
account. if you send to an alias, the final recipient (after all aliases
expansion) must exist as a unix account.