From: Jeff Jansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Friday 16 January 2004 5:01 pm, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Is it possible to use Courier to create a 'smart' mail relay? > > > > What I want is a mail server that can reject mail to non-existent > > users based on it's userdb, but then send the good mail along to > > another server for delivery. > > > > From what I can tell by reading the man pages, I can't use > > esmtproutes to send the mail to another server if the mail is local, > > but if the mail is not local, then it won't check the usernames. Is > > there any way around this? > > Not sure about this but what about using aliases? So let's say that > you are "relay.example.com" and you are the primary MX for > "example.com" and you want to send the mail onto mail.example.com. So > you would put "example.com" into locals and esmtpacceptmailfor and > then create aliases like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now you have no accounts on your system but you accept mail for > example.com if there's a valid alias which will in turn ship it out to > mail.example.com. > > As I said, I haven't thought this through really well but it seems to > me that this would work.
Interesting. It would require an alias line for each user, but I could probably automate that. I could do this if I had to, but I would really prefer something that let's me say "send all local mail to another server" rather than doing it user by user. Also, if I put "example.com" into locals, then wouldn't the alias need to be for "user" rather than "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? In my case, I would prefer to use the full address since I host several domains. So I should put "example.com" in to hosteddomains instead, right? Thanks, Bowie ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
