Mutt/Postfix: User unknown in virtual alias table

I'm getting this message in /var/log/mail.log when trying to send email with mutt: "User unknown in virtual alias table" (The mail bounces). We've got Mutt 1.5.13 and Debian Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (i686).

I have no problem sending mail with icedove (thunderbird).

I'm new to postfix (and mutt) and don't understand how to configure the difference between our computer's domain and the domain of the dsl server.

Help appreciated.

 

Did you create an email account on the server? If so, how?

 

Do you mean - did I create an email account on postfix? We created one in icedove and in evolution which both function ok.

I did create an account using

Code:

 sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash 

although we already had a user set up previously.

When I try to send mail to the user

I get:

 

Try to set up an email account as follows: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2

 

Thanks. I no longer get the message about the user not being in the virtual alias table. But there still seems to be a problem.

When I try sending mail thru "telnet localhost 25" etc., everything seems to go ok but the mail doesn't show up when I type "mail" for the user. It is showing up at /root/Maildir/new.

Also, there is no /Maildir directory for some users and no /home/user directory for others.

Update: the mail.log gives this error message: "warning: maildir access problem for UID/GID=1002/100: create maildir file home/sysuser/Maildir/tmp/122401558"

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /home/sysuser

? Seems to be a permissions problem.

 

There isn't a directory named "sysuser" on the system even though I thought I created it using

Code:

 sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash

I just tried it again and got:

 

What's sysuser's home directory? You can find it in /etc/passwd.

 

sysuser:x:1002:100::/home/sysuser:/bin/sh

 

Try this:

Code:

mkdir /home/sysuser
chown sysuser:users /home/sysuser

 

Thanks for your help.

I am now able to send mail locally from mutt and it arrives in the sysuser's Maildir.