On 7/19/2011 6:45 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote: > Thanks to all who have tried to help me so far. > I'm sorry to be such a pest. I've tried a number of things and still > can't get it. > > Management wants email to > user@ <a non-existent machine> .arlut.utexas.edu > will be treated as though it had been addressed to > u...@arlut.utexas.edu > (sendmail can do this.) (I'd like to stop this practice, but, oh, well.)
Humh. > Is this much set up correctly? > relay_recipient_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/pfrecipient_canonical > This file looks like this for the user schumi > /^schumi@.*\.arlut\.utexas\.edu$/ sch...@arlut.utexas.edu > I can send mail to schumi, schumi@correctmachine, and > my backup mail server delivers the mail like I want it to. > My relay_recipient_maps is such that I do match all possible subdomains. > I don't get "recipient unknown" so it seems that much is correct. > > Mail to schumi@nonexistentmachine > gets shoved to the primary internet connection. I can tell from the > headers in the msg. So this mail server isn't doing this "fail-over" > like management wants. I think you'll need to set # main.cf mydomain = arlut.utexas.edu so that append_dot_mydomain can add the right parent to unqualified addresses. and probably also: local_header_rewrite_clients = static:all unless all the clients are already listed in mynetworks. Then, you can use masquerade_domains = arlut.utexas.edu to strip the bogus subdomain. Caution: if you're doing other rewrites, the above settings may interact in unexpected ways. Good luck. -- Noel Jones > > I've read and re-read the addressing READMEs online. > Is this "failover" from a non-existent, non-DNS MX, non-transport_maps > machine to the right machine (see ns8,vme below) possible? > The DNS MX lists only the primary and backup mail gateways (they > don't do final delivery). > There is a short list of machines which do take final delivery but > none are in DNS MX records. These are listed in the transport_maps. > > Here's the transport_maps file used in the tests. > ns8.arlut.utexas.edu smtp:[ns8.arlut.utexas.edu] > vme.arlut.utexas.edu smtp:[vme.arlut.utexas.edu] > I've tried adding > .arlut.utexas.edu : > But that will involve the primary mail servers (again, from the msg headers). > > For reference, schumi's alias looks like this: > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/pfmalias > schumi sch...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu, sch...@ns8.arlut.utexas.edu > > > j. >
