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Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

From: Dennis Putnam (dennis.putnamaimaudit.com)
Date: Wed Nov 25 2009 - 10:47:57 CST

Hi Wietse,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure I completely understand. Is the forward_path a directory on the mail server or a path to the remote users' home? Is that a per user or system setting (e.g. users' home directories may be on different servers)?

I'm guessing that the forward_path is on the mail server. If that is the case, from the users' perspective, how do they handle forwarding?

On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Dennis Putnam:
>> I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but I don't know where else to start.
>>
>> I am running Postfix/Cyrus on the same server that contains user
>> home directories. The forwarding mechanism (.forward) is, of
>> course, working and I understand it. What I don't understand is
>> how this mechanism works, or even if it does, when a user's home
>> directory is on a different server than Postfix/Cyrus. In other
>> words when Postfix/Cyrus does not have access to the user's home
>> directory. Or is there some other delivery mechanism involved that
>> I am missing? Thanks.
>>
>> Can someone explain if this can work and if, so how. If not, what
>> do users do in that case?
>
> With Postfix, these files don't have to live in the user's home
> directory. You can specify an alternate location with the forward_path
> configuration parameter.
>
> Wietse
>

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