On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:59:54PM +1000, James Lever wrote:
>
> On 25/03/2010, at 11:43 AM, James Lever wrote:
>
> > This still doesn?t solve the issue of local destination mail - mail sent
> > via ?mail user? or ?mail u...@$myhostname? from the local system still gets
> > delivered to the mail spool. This is the key part that I?m still trying to
> > solve.
>
>
> For anybody else that comes along, I discovered 2 methods to easily do what I
> wanted.
>
> Method 1:
>
> Enable envelope_sender masquerading (non-default behaviour).
>
> edit masquerade_classes to include envelope_recipient, for example:
>
> masquerade_classes = envelope_sender, envelope_recipient, header_sender,
> header_recipient
>
> along with
>
> masquerade_domains = $mydomain
> masquerade_exceptions = root, mailer-daemon, logwatch
Seems to me that $myorigin = $mydomain achieves the result more cleanly.
Mail for root can be handled via virtual(5) and generic(5).
> Method 2:
>
> This method can provide significantly greater flexibility, but bypasses all
> local delivery attempts including alias expansion, so any aliases need to be
> defined in /etc/postfix/virtual and the regexp needs to exclude it (from my
> minimal testing of this method)
>
> local_transport = virtual
> virtual_alias_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/virtual
>
> in /etc/postfix/virtual have an entry similar to this
>
> /(.*)@/ $...@somedomain.com
>
>
> Hopefully that?s the right way to do the second one.
This looks fragile.
--
Viktor.
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