On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 08:50 -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Hanspeter Kunz: > > well, my intention was to use /etc/aliases for forwarding mail adresses > > like root, webmaster, logcheck, etc. to real users. This would be > > different users on every host. That's why I want first to > > process /etc/aliases and then route the mail to our central mail server. > > /etc/aliases is used only for domains in $mydestination. This > is documented behavior, and will not be changed.
sure. > To rewrite address that don't deliver locally, use virtual_alias_maps > (NOT virtual_alias_domains) to rewrite root etc, into real recipients. thanks for your inputs (also to mouss). For the record, I decided to do it the other way round: * mail is delivered locally (so that /etc/aliases is processed) * an additional ldap-aliases-table reroutes mails for "real" users to the central mail server. thanks again, Hp.
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