Federico Baraldi writes:
I'm quite courious .... so can i have all four descriptions ??My problem is that for an administrative error i'm not able to renew mydomain.net (valid until 30-06-2010) so i registered mydomain.com and i'd like that all mailbox as [email protected] were redirected to [email protected].
That would be something else entirely. "Forward" generally means doing something that involves forwarding the mail to another server, which is not the case here. This is why it's always best to explain exactly what you're trying to accomplish.
My user have been told to switch from mydomain.net to mydomain.com and to advise all possible sender .... we have 6 months ti perform the migration !! I've added mydomain.com to hosteddomains and i've created all [email protected] mailboxes .... but i don't know which solution is the best .... perhaps both #2 and #3.
You should not have to individually create new mailboxes immediately. The makehosteddomains man page gives you a direct example of what you need to do:
Each domain can optionally be followed by a single tab character, in
order to specify an alias for a domain, for example:
domain.com
mail.domain.com<TAB>domain.com
example.com<TAB>domain.com
First, we list the domain "domain.com" as a hosted domain. Then, we
also list the domain "mail.domain.com", which is an alias for
domain.com. The Courier mail server will take any address of the form
<[email protected]>, rewrite it as <[email protected]>, and
attempt to deliver the mail to a local mailbox for that name. The third
entry does the same for "example.com"; mail addressed to
<[email protected]> is delivered to the local mailbox
<[email protected]>.
In your case, your hosteddomains file should contain:
mydomain.net
mydomain.com<tab>mydomain.net
No changes to the names of accounts, for now. Now, either [email protected]
or [email protected] will end up being delivered to your existing
[email protected] mailbox. This only affects actual mail delivery, the
headers, if any, in the messages remain unchanged. Mail servers generally do
not rewrite mail headers. Mail servers use message envelope sender and
recipient addresses, which are separate from the contents of any headers,
which, from the mail server's perspective, are for informative purposes
only.
At some point, though, you will have to flip this around, create a matching [email protected] account to replace each existing [email protected] address, then switch the domains in the hosteddomains file as well.
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