Khosrow Ebrahimpour wrote: > Hi postfix-users, > > We recently migrated from a Sendmail/Cyrus environment to a Postfix/Courier > setup. Some of the users had ".forward" files that would forward their mail > to an exchange server in our network, and this was done with a file like this > one : > > === > @ms-exch.example.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > === > >
.forward files are only used on delivery by local(8) and must be in alias(5) map format > Since the migration, this feature doesn't work anymore. ms-exch is a virtual > host that maps to one of three actual servers. And the so simply putting a > rule that would forward mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work. > I've looked at transport maps but I'm not sure this problem can be solved > using them.. as per the following thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/list.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/733c642ef2ccab35/d7cac2e02e313d36 > transport(5) maps, like the documentation says, can use any key listed in the Table Search Order section, including [EMAIL PROTECTED], to route mail. As mouss notes in that archived post, transport maps are highly sensitive to outages. Database maps (ldap,*sql) are allowed but must have high availability. I suggest fully reading http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html Brian
