Bounces not being received in Discourse with local Postfix server

[Andro (Andrew Bernard)]

Starting a new topic in this as responses to a similar thing in another topic seem to have petered out.

I have Discourse running with mail-receiver. For outbound mail I have Postifx using port 587 for submissions. Mail-receiver listens for inbound mail on port 25. All works fine, except bounces do not get back to Discourse. I have the regex set for mail replies in Discourse for VERP according to recommendations.

How to debug and diagnose this? Sorry if this is a bit vague at this stage.

Does anybody else have this problem?

[Lilly]

Sorry I don’t know anything about Postfix and Mail-receiver. But have you read this topic? There is a lot of info there…

Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver

Discourse is all about enabling civilized discussion. While plenty of people like a web interface, e-mail is still the “hub” of many people’s online lives. That’s why sending e-mail is so important, and when you’re sending e-mail, you really want to be able to receive it, too. There are several reasons why: If e-mails “bounce” (they can’t be delivered for some reason), you need to know about that. Repeatedly sending e-mails that bounce will get your e-mails flagged as spam. Receiving e-ma…

[Andro (Andrew Bernard)]

Yes I have read previously, thanks.

I use local Postfix for outbound and mail-receiver for inbound. Maybe one can configure mail-receiver to use Postfix somehow.