Re: Postfix help

ok I will give it a shot, yes the host name and alias thing is a pain

Greg Oster wrote:

>robm writes:
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>>when I send email to rwm132@engr.usask.ca it ends up on port 25 of my
>>server young , where it gets check against rbls and scanned if it makes
>>it to the MTA
>>I want the MTA to check its alias.db or virtual.db (which ever one is
>>appropriate) and "rewrite " the envelope to rwm132@mail.usask.ca
>>
>>aliases
>>rwm132: rwm132@mail.usask.ca
>>
>>
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>So this should actually just forward the mail, and not rewrite
>anything...
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>
>
>>virtual
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>>rwm132 rwm132@mail.usask.ca
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>>
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>I think you'd need the full:
>
>rwm132@engr.usask.ca rwm132@mail.usask.ca
>
>for this to work.. but not sure...
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>
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>>it might be that for the virtual db all I can do is
>>
>>
>>@young.usask.ca @mail.usask.ca
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>Well... you probably need both:
>
>@young.usask.ca @mail.usask.ca
>@engr.usask.ca @mail.usask.ca
>
>in there... And probably have to add:
> virtual_alias_domains = young.usask.ca.engr.usask.ca
>to main.cf as well. (See "Mail Forwarding Domains in here:
> http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html )
>
>
>
>>but in my log I get the lines below showing a rewrite to
>>rwm132@young.usask.ca. I think its using young because I don't have a
>>main.cf param defined and the MTAs default is to use the DNS entry for
>>the ip addr of this machine
>>
>>
>
>What's making this even uglier is that you're reciving mail with the
>host part being the alias of a machine... so you probably have to
>account for both the real name, and the alias, when setting this
>up...
>
>However: I think if this machine is just doing simple forwarding, you
>shouldn't need the "virtual" part at all -- you should just be
>setup to accept mail to @young.usask.ca or @engr.usask.ca addresses,
>and then rely on the aliases.db file to do the actual forwarding...
>
>Later...
>
>Greg Oster
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Received on Sat Oct 28 18:13:21 2006