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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:41:54 -0600 |
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Neal McConachie <McConachieNeal@××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1) mydestination = |
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> - change it to include all the other hosts on your local network |
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> that you want to accept mail for. |
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> ex: mydestination = $mydomain, localhost.$mydomain, |
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> mail.$mydomain, davey.$mydomain, foo.$mydomain |
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> Now, that's all well and good, but it also has to know what an |
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> acceptable <user>@*.spore.cth.cx is. |
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> 2) local_recipient_maps = |
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I chose not to change that, the main.cf comments seemed to suggest it |
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made things more difficult. |
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> Once those things are done, any external email that's addressed to any |
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> of your machines should be nicely deposited on your mailserver. |
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That's working very well, thank you. |
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> The next thing to consider is mail that gets sent internally. For |
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> that, each of the machines on your network should use mail.$mydomain |
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> as their relay host. For this to work, a) the mailserver has to be |
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> willing to relay their mail, and b) they need to know that they |
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> should relay mail to the mailserver. |
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> 3a)(on the mailserver) mynetworks= |
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> - this should be set to allow your local network to relay mail |
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> through the mailserver. It looks like you've set it up already. |
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> 3b)(on each machine) relayhost= |
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> - here, I'm assuming that you're using postfix to send mail on |
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> each of your hosts. You'll want to put in mail.$mydomain as your |
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> relay host. |
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> Oh, and actually, you also need: |
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> mydestination=<blank> on each local machine - this is assuming you |
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> want all logs and such going to the mailserver too - I'm not sure if |
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> that's what you want or not... You could play around with this by |
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> allowing localhost as a destination on each machine, and specifying |
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> root@localhost as the log email destination, for example. |
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I tried that, but unfortunately the mails then bounced back and forth |
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indefinitely. The best I could do was put the right address in |
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~/.forward |
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> Hope that helps, |
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> - nkm |
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At least external mail is routed correctly ; ) In one sense, if I |
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address mail to a host that doesn't accept mail, I guess it's my |
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fault. |
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Thanks for the advice. |
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