OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
 
Re: Aliasing (alias_maps) not working on an edge server

From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 15:55:40 CDT


On Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 21:55 CEST,
     Rob Tanner <rtannerlinfield.edu> wrote:

> On 08/02/2006 11:55 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote:
>
> > You must list the domain in question in mydestination, or else it
> > will not be delivered to local(8) and thus not subject to local
> > aliases.
> >
> > But that's just a guess. We need logs and "postconf -n" output.
>
> I was afraid that might be the case. What I'm trying to do is have my
> cake and eat it too -- meaning I want transparency for the users. To
> do that, I need messages that don't get processed via a virtual map or
> an alias map to get passed on to the Exchange server. In other words,
> forwarding the mail on needs to be the default behavior. How do I
> emulate that after making the change to mydestination?

You don't have to modify mydestination. You can use virtual rewriting to
rewrite the recipients that must be delivered locally to a local domain.

yourscriptlinfield.edu yourscriptlocalhost

(Assuming localhost.$mydomain is listed in mydestination.)

> I have included the postconf -n output below. Even in the relative
> quiet of summer, the logs are quite large. Any idea what you'd be
> looking for in the logs?

The logs of a misdelivered message, of course. But we might not need it.

[...]

--
Magnus Bäck
magnusdsek.lth.se