From: Ralf Hildebrandt on
On 2007-09-18, Rajen.Jani(a)gmail.com <Rajen.Jani(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello eveyone,
>
> I have just about gone mad with this problem. I am trying to
> send my mail remotely via thunderbird but what happens is that
> it connects to the postfix server and as this happens the maillog
> gives the following error:
>
> Sep 18 15:27:57 ldap postfix/cleanup[68993]: fatal: open database usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual.db: No such file or directory
> Sep 18 15:27:58 ldap postfix/master[67922]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/cleanup pid 68993 exit status 1
> Sep 18 15:27:58 ldap postfix/master[67922]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/cleanup: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> Now I have entered the following in the virtual file:
>
> vnayak(a)my-domain.com vnayak then I did this:
>
> postmap virtual
>
> This produces the virtual.db file.

Which one? Note that it says "usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual.db"
WITHOUT the leading "/"

> virtual_alias_domains = my-domain.com
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual

You forgot the leading "/".
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual

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