Mutt/Postfix: User unknown in virtual alias table

[somae]

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.

[falko]

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

[somae]

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 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:
telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 TTIL.soma.org ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
ehlo localhost
250-TTIL.soma.org
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
mail from: root@localhost
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to: fmaster
550 5.1.1 <fmaster>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table

[falko]

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

[somae]

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"

[falko]

What's the output of ls -la /home/sysuser? Seems to be a permissions problem.

[somae]

What's the output of 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 sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash

7# ls -la /home/sysuser
ls: /home/sysuser: No such file or directory

I just tried it again and got:
# sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash sysuser
useradd: user sysuser exists

[falko]

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

[somae]

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

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

[falko]

Try this:
mkdir /home/sysuser
chown sysuser:users /home/sysuser

[somae]

Try this:
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.