Cyrus/Postfix

Brad brad at bradandkim.net
Wed Mar 30 13:21:47 CST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:56 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> For some reason one of my Gentoo servers has decidedthat Postfix should 
> deliver mail to the local maildirs instead of to the Cyrus imap server.  I 
> have no idea why this change happened - I know I killed somethign by 
> accidentally removing MySQL (even though it wasn't running), and aparantly 
> that caused Postfix to be braindead. (?)
> 
> Anyway, if someone knows off-hand where the magic switch is, I'd appreciate 
> it, otherwise I won't be able to dig into the configuration files to find and 
> fix it until tomorrow.


Sounds like maybe your mailbox_transport was cyrus and cyrus did
local_recipient_maps lookups in mysql.  Upon losing mysql you failed
over to the fallback_transport.  You might check that setting. 

Brad



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