[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Having been charged with the task of creating a new mail server for our
> local Sun boxes, I looked at sendmail again, realized what a pain it would
> be and turned to qmail. Setup of qmail has been relatively easy considering
> until last week I hadn't even heard about it before.
>
> I've been through various docs (LWQ, FAQTS, online man pages) and been
> searching through the archives, but I don't think I've quite gotten a
> handle on how to do what I want to do with qmail.
>
> For testing I have set-up a qmail server and a mini-qmail installation on
> two machines. The qmail server will act as a mail hub for all internal Sun
> boxes to send outgoing mail through, as well as a redirection server for
> incoming mail to the domain pern.com (names changed to protect the
> helpless).
>
> I have manage to configure the mini-qmail server to send out through the
> mail hub and have messages appear as [EMAIL PROTECTED] even though the internal
> network has a different domain name. Very cool.
>
> I have also managed to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have it
> redirected to my real email address on our Notes server, appearing as from
> the original sender and to the intended recipient. This is good as well as
> we have many addresses for support purposes, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], that
> presently get forwarded to real users via sendmail aliases.
>
> No local deliveries are to be performed. The qmail server is only to
> redirect mail.
>
> Any local mail sent from a Sun box on our network should be redirected to a
> real email address on our Notes server. Our Sun user accounts vary, but our
> Notes addresses take the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Mail coming in to the qmail server must also be redirected, regardless if
> an account exists on the qmail server. Some of the incoming mail is to
> groups, some to individual users.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) How do I prevent qmail from trying to deliver locally on the qmail
> server? I read the man page for qmail-users, but I'm not sure if that is
> what I need to use.
On the mail servers that are used just for relaying you could not startup
the local delivery daemons. - qmail-inject, qmail-lspawn, qmail-local...
>
> 2) How can I correctly set-up the group redirects in a way that will
> eliminate (if not reduce) duplication due to an error sending to one
> address in the group?
?
>
> 3) What would be a good way of redirecting local names to the appropriate
> email address for the local messages from our Sun servers (ie: bobs ->
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]): individual /var/qmail/alias files, or some other
> method?
>
If you are using fast forward you could use an /etc/aliases file...
>
> I would prefer to avoid using fastforward if possible, but am willing to
> change my mind if it would make the administration easier. The user list is
> relatively small (about 30) and doesn't change all that often. The current
> sendmail alias list is about 30 lines long, but could probably be pared
> down as I don't believe it has been updated in a while.
>
What about using http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html
>
> A quick diagram of the flow would be something like this:
>
> external mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> qmail server --> support-group
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ...]
>
> external mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> qmail server -->
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> local internal mail to brubble --> qmail server -->
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> A user may or may not appear in a group in addition to having their own
> mail redirected. That is:
>
> external mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> qmail server --> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> external mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> qmail server --> info-group
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...]
>
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA
>
> Dion Vansevenant
> Internetwork Administrator
> MRO.com
