Bryan Ischo wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have a somewhat complicated situation for which the simplest solution
> is
> a mail relay. I want a completely open mail relay that will accept mail
> to be delivered to any domain whatsoever BUT I want it to only relay
> through
> one destination SMTP host.
>
> We are setting up a "temporary" mail relay which catches mail sent to
> the address of a mail server which is no longer the MX for our site, but
> which may have mail sent to it by sites whose DNS hasn't updated to our
> new MX records yet. I simply want our relay system to accept any mail
> whatsoever, destined for anybody whatsoever (in essense, an "open
> relay")
> but relay all mail directly to our real mail server. The real mail
> server will handle the virtual domains, and bouncing mail, etc, all
> itself.
>
> Is there an easy way to set qmail up this way? I set the smtproutes
> file
> to route mail to the new mail server, and everything works for our
> actual domain (plumbdesign.com) as I have plumbdesign.com in the "me"
> file of the relay. The problem comes with virtual domains - I don't
> want to have to
> set up virtual domains on the relay server just to have it route mail
> for those domains; I just want it to catch all mail destined for anybody
> and relay the mail to the real mail server, letting the real mail server
> handle virtual domains and bounces, etc.
>
> In order to cause our qmail-smtpd to accept mail destined for any host
> whatsoever, I set the "RELAYCLIENT" environment variable in the shell
> that runs qmail-smtpd from inetd.
Hi again. If anyone is interested, it is actually quite easy to
set up qmail to work this way if you hack the source a bit. The
source is very well-organized and easy to hack. I simply #if'ed
out the place where it checks the rcpthosts file, and the place
where it checks the locals file. Viola. Now I have a qmail
installation that will accept anything at all and just forward it
on to the host listed in the smtproutes file.
Thanks, and best wishes,
Bryan
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