forwarding postfix virtual mailbox to gmail

Question

I want postfix to forward one of the emails on my domain to gmail. Virtual settings:

virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

virtual contains the following (actual values replaced):

user1@domain.com domain.com/user1/
user2@domain.com domain.com/user2/
user3@domain.com user3@gmail.com

This works for the local maildirs. Emails to the 3rd user i want forwarding to a gmail account.

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However when a message is sent to user3@domain.com, instead of forwarding the mail on to gmail, postfix creates a user3@gmail.com file in /home/vmail with the contents of the email (maybe in mbox format??)

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks Rob

Answer 1

You're trying to add an alias, aliases are specified using virtual_alias_maps, not virtual_mailbox_maps. Have a look at http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#virtual_alias_maps