Ken Mink wrote:

Thanks to Jason and Aaron. Both of their ideas are spot on. The
gateway machine is one of those machines that has just been humming
along for quite a while. It's got RH7.3 and running an old postfix.
It's time for an upgrade.  This has become enough of an issue to put
the time in on it.

Thanks,
Ken


A note about the different approaches that Jason and I suggested. My mindset is geared towards high scalability, and his is towards lower maintenance. In fact, significantly lower maintenance. :) It's unlikely that you'll need the scalability afforded by the local mappings vs verify, unless you're pushing more than a few messages per minute on average. If you get up into the range of a few messages per second, start looking at other solutions. Otherwise, verify is likely a simpler option. Just be careful that you configure it correctly. On the other hand, if you only have a dozen or so users in your domain and they change maybe once a year, personally I'd go w/ a simple map file.

There is of course the argument that if you only make user changes once in a blue moon, you'll forget how to make the changes and have to relearn it every time, but hopefully you remember to document, document, document, right? :)

As another side note, relay_recipient_maps was added in Postfix 2.0, verify was added in Postfix 2.1. A link to the verify documentation (as Jason didn't provide one :) is here: http://www.postfix.org/verify.8.html

Aaron S. Joyner
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