mail forwarding problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 25 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2007, zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > So do I need to look at configuring sendmail? From what I've read on
> > this list, that's not the easiest thing to do.
>
> Postfix.sendmail is easier to configure, though I've never done it for use
> with a company network.  Of course that means installing and configuring
> postfix, but the config files are helpfully commented.
>
> Basically you have to write a transport map file that tells it what to do
> with local traffic and what to do with external messages.  On a home LAN it
> would look something like
>
Correction (must keep fingers un-twisted :-) )

lydgate.lan     smtp:[borg.lydgate.lan]
.lydgate.lan    smtp:[borg.lydgate.lan]
*       smtp:[smtp.mailbox.co.uk]
>
> That is, send local mail to the smtp server on the server box.  Send
> everything else to my ISP's smtp server.
>
> When you've discovered the names you need to put in there, you run 'postmap
> transport', and you're away.
>
> Finally you have to tell the system to use postfix.sendmail instead of
> sendmail.  There's a small utility that helps here.  I can't remember
> exactly, but it's something like mail-agent-switcher.  I'm sure someone
> will give you the correct name.
>
> Anne


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