On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 07:05:33AM +1000, James Lever wrote:
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> On 09/04/2010, at 12:08 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
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> > Seems to me that $myorigin = $mydomain achieves the result more cleanly.
> > Mail for root can be handled via virtual(5) and generic(5).
>
> That?s a fair point, but this is a much simpler and cleaner
> (configuration management-wise) solution. I think $myorigin = $mydomain
> still doesn?t handle the case where you send mail to $lo...@$myhostname
> without the use of masquerading?
Masquerading is "clean" on null-client systems only. On real MTAs,
masquerading is often a tricky business. Use other tools if possible.
Such brute-force rewriting is much more intrusive and risky than setting
myorigin correctly.
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