I've got an AWS EC2 instance running Xenial which has Postfix installed and at some point in the past I was messing around with settings and spamassassin.
I (used to) use it to forward all emails to my gmail account. Lets say that I own the domain fub.ar; and anyone emails me at "[email protected]", it will forward that email seamlessly to [email protected] (it'll appear in my gmail as from whoever it was from).
I have this for a number of domains and gmail addresses that I have for a few people.
It used to work untill I played with it too much (the story of my life).
Now, I realised that I didn't really need spamassassin as the Google spam handling is pretty robust, and is less work if I just let Google deal with the spam.
So I tried to remove spamassassin. This was a long time ago and I've not really dealt with it since. I've left it hanging for way too long and want to get it fixed now.
I believe that I tried removing it with the apt remove spamassassin as well as purging it.
But I'm still getting lines in the /var/log/mail.log that look like this:
Mar 12 11:15:48 mx postfix/qmgr[2186]: warning: connect to transport private/spamassassin: Connection refused
And naturally, no emails are actaully reaching my [email protected] that are addressed to *@fub.ar.
Here's cat /etc/postfix/master.cf | egrep -v '^#':
smtp inet n - y - - smtpd -v
submission inet n - y - - smtpd
smtps inet n - y - - smtpd
pickup unix n - y 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - y - 0 cleanup
qmgr unix n - n 300 1 qmgr
tlsmgr unix - - y 1000? 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix - - y - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - y - 0 bounce
defer unix - - y - 0 bounce
trace unix - - y - 0 bounce
verify unix - - y - 1 verify
flush unix n - y 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap
smtp unix - - y - - smtp
relay unix - - y - - smtp
showq unix n - y - - showq
error unix - - y - - error
retry unix - - y - - error
discard unix - - y - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - y - - lmtp
anvil unix - - y - 1 anvil
scache unix - - y - 1 scache
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
uucp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient)
ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient
scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
mailman unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
${nexthop} ${user}
Here's cat /etc/postfix/main.cf:
compatibility_level = 2
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix/sbin
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
inet_interfaces = all
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
virtual_alias_domains = fub.ar fub2.ar buf.ra
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
debugger_command =
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
inet_protocols = ipv4
smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access
Here's cat /etc/postfix/virtual:
# fub.ar
fub.ar VIRTUAL
@fub.ar [email protected]
# fub2.ar
fub2.ar VIRTUAL
@fub2.ar [email protected]
# buf.ra
buf.ra VIRTUAL
@buf.ra [email protected]
And here's the contents of /etc/postfix/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 Oct 22 2018 access
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Oct 22 2018 access.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Jul 4 2020 domains
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 Jul 31 2018 dynamicmaps.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 595 May 19 2020 main.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27422 Jun 13 2019 main.cf.2109-06-13
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27126 Jul 31 2018 main.cf.proto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6289 Mar 12 10:34 master.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6068 Aug 1 2018 master.cf.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6068 Jul 31 2018 master.cf.proto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21233 Jan 17 2018 postfix-files
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9344 Jan 17 2018 postfix-script*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29446 Jan 17 2018 post-install*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 2018 sasl/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 296 Mar 12 09:49 virtual
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Mar 12 10:35 virtual.db
