On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:02:22 +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > I'm into a slight struggle with my mail servers. They are satellite > systems (no local mail, everything goes to a smarthost). I figured out > that by changing the mailname to generaldomain.com instead of > themachineshostname.generaldomain.com, all users' mail get delivered to > [email protected] (I create users with usernames that exist as a > mail alias/address in that domain). BUT > this breaks the aliases file. "special" or system users, like root, are > not rewritten to [email protected], they are smarthosted with their > original user id --> [email protected] ... > > Probably there is a better and cleaner way to reroute local users (not > individually, please) than to forge /etc/mailname?
If this was Postfix, I would suggest that you look at the address rewriting rules for doing a selective routing of the outgoing messages based on their location (local or remote users). For Exim, I'm not sure how this is handled. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
