Postfix not accepting [email protected] but is accepting [email protected]

Hello all!

I have postfix/ispconfig 3/centos/etc. seemingly properly configured but I am running into a problem.

I have setup an email account in the system, [email protected]

I have properly set up my dns such that I have and A record for
mail.domain.com and
domain.com

with an mx record for
mail.domain.com

So, I expect that any mail that goes to [email protected] would be forwarded to mail.domain.com (which are on the same machine), but instead postfix returns a 550 response and kicks the email back.

Do I have to set up another email domain in ispconfig and do an alias on each user, or is there a more global way to do this? I explored the $mydestination variable in postfixs main.cf, but from my reading, it appears that the right way to adjust these sort of things on ispconfig 3 with mysql is through the ispconfig interface itself

Any help would be appreciated!

 

You have to create domain.com as a mail domain in ISPConfig and then create an alias.

 

Thanks falko. So, after much fiddling, the only way I got this to work was to create two domains. One domain.com and the other mail.domain.com.

Then I could make one (domain.com) and alias of the other (mail.domain.com).

Is this correct? Is seems very counterintuitive.

 

Yes, this is correct (if you want to alias all email accounts of domain.com to mail.domain.com).