On Friday 09 April 2004 02:42, Roger Ward wrote:
> Basically, when I attempt to put an external email address
> in /etc/courier/aliases/hosted (after running makealiases to hash the files
> of course) it rewrites the email address with an odd format like this
> (my mail server: mx.host.com, to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], needs to go to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The alias file itself has this:
> @domain.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Courier is doing here exactly what you told it to. The format for this kind
of virtual domain is
@domain.com: localuser
So when courier sees a message for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it removes the
"@domain.com" and rewrites the message as "localuser-bob" and then tries to
deliver this message. Assuming there is no actual "localuser-bob" on this
machine that means it gets delivered to "localuser" and courier looks for a
dot-courier file that tells it what to do with mail with this extension
("-bob").
So you told courier that mail for domain.com should be delivered to LOCAL USER
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". So when a message comes for [EMAIL PROTECTED] it
gets rewritten with "-bob" stuck to the end of what it thinks is a local
account named "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and so you get
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Of course this user doesn't really exist so
this doesn't work.
> Is there a perhaps better way to do it? I'd like to bypass the entire
> authdaemon step at this point if possible... (get mail for a domain that
> isn't stored locally, and forward it to the specific external address.
> Not like backup mx hosting, just plain 'ol forward).
So what do you want to have happen here? Is mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposed
to be rewritten as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and then sent on? If so then
there are several ways to do it. One way very close to what you're doing now
is to create the alias
@domain.com: localuser
and then create the file '/etc/courier/aliasdir/.courier-localuser-default'
which has one line in it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now when mail that comes in for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it gets rewritten
"localuser-bob" and courier will use the .courier-localuser-default file
(since there is no 'localuser-bob' user to deliver this message to), grab the
"bob", which is what $EXT is equal to in this case, and forward it on to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clear as mud, huh? :-) All is revealed in the dot-courier man page if you
want the official explanation of how aliases and delivery instructions work
in dot-courier files.
Jeff Jansen
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