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Subject: Re: Question about root/virtual/canonical
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 07:35:24 CST

Luis Melendez Aganzo:
> Hello all.
> After some testing I have just completely installed Postfix in all
> our mail machines. It works very well. Now I have a question: in some
> of our machines, I have a .forward for root that redirects mail to
> rootothermachine. That othermachine collects mail for root's of several
> machines and saves them in per-machine folders for some automated processing.
> If I put 'root rootlocalhost' in virtual, as advised in the documentation,

That example is for delivering LOCALLY. You want to deliver REMOTELY.

> Other solution is to put in canonical: root rootthismachine
> This works well, and has the advantage that all mails go with
> addresses 'rootmachine', and I think this is convenient in the case
> of root.
>
> So, is there any drawback with this approach? If not, why the documentation
> advises to use virtual instead for root?

That's because you misread the documentation.

        Wietse