Postfix (mail server) question

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> What I'd like to have is a list of users for whom mail is punted to a
> different SMTP host on the local network. For all other users, mail is
> delivered locally (via a Courier IMAP server).

Hi Evan.  You can do it the other way around with an "luser_relay", that 
is deliver locally if the user exists otherwise send the mail elsewhere. 
luser_relay is mentioned here: http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html

Alternatively can can simply direct the users on a case by case basis as 
William suggests.  My preference in this case would be to use the virtual 
map.

Another option is to have Postfix do an LDAP lookup to see what to do with 
the email.

luser_relay is nice because it is low maintenance.  If the user doesn't 
exist locally send it off to another box to deal with.

Beware of becoming a source of "backscatter" spam though.  Any MTA which 
accepts mail for the domain needs to reject mail to non-existant 
recipients in the domain or it can be a source of backscatter.


Cheers,

Rob

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