Re: [courier-users] Question about Relaying mail to other hosts

[Jonathan P. <jp...@is...>]

Thanks for the info, and thanks to everyone who helped. I ended up 
creating an alias:
rt...@my... -> rt...@rt...gus

then edited esmtproutes to send rt.bogus mail to rt.mydomain.com. I had 
to make a few config changes on the sendmail
server involving masquerading, and accepting mail for the rt.bogus 
domain, but that went quickly.

Again, thanks for your help!

Jeff Jansen wrote:

>Jonathan Pauli wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey, you know I think you are exactly right. I looked at the
>>localdomains and we have listed .mydomain.com and mydomain.com
>>so Im thinking that maybe the .mydomain.com is breaking things. (if you
>>know off hand how this behaves please let me know) 
>>    
>>
>
>That's exactly what is happening.  Anything listed as a local domain
>will have the domain part stripped before courier tries to handle it.
>The '.mydomain.com' means that ANYTHING that ends in "mydomain.com" will
>have the entire domain removed and only the user name will be looked up.
>
>So in this case "rt...@my..." and "rt...@rt..." (and in fact
>"rt@ANYTHING.mydomain.com") will all result in courier looking for a
>local account called "rt" to deliver to.
>
>So either get rid of the wildcard (.mydomain.com) entry in the locals
>file or create a local account on that machine and then either poll it
>(as you mentioned) or use a dot-courier file to redirect it to the other
>server.  You can do something clever like redirecting to
>"rt%rt.domain.com@sendmail-server".  Then add an entry in esmtproutes to
>direct "sendmail-server" to the proper machine.  (I don't know if you
>can create aliases using that syntax or not - I've never tried.  But
>that might work as well.)
>
>HTH
>
>Jeff Jansen
>
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