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Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Exchange, round 3
From: Liviu Daia (Liviu.Daiaimar.ro)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 16:18:51 CDT

On 29 September 2000, Malcolm Tester <MTestercambric.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm sure some of you are probably really not interested in making
> Postfix work with Exchange, however, I am still having problems. I'm
> going to back up a little here and explain how it's all hooked up and
> maybe someone will be able to make enough sense to help me out.
>
> I used to have this setup:
> Internet <-> Postfix on Firewall <-> Sendmail on Internal <->
> Exchangeserver
[...]
> I replaced Sendmail on the internal unix machine with Postfix.
> Outgoing mail works fine, however, incoming mail is being delivered
> locally to the internal machine. As if the aliases file is being
> ignored. I even put a .forward in my home directory, and it is being
> ignored as well. The mail just gets stored in the /var/mail/mtester
> file. Here's the postconf -n output on my internal postfix:
[...]
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, exchangeserver,
> exchangeserver.$mydomain, mailhost, mailhost.$mydomain
[...]

    That's what you get for not understanding what you're doing.
According to main.cf:

# The mydestination parameter specifies the list of domains that this
# machine considers itself the final destination for.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia 

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