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caefer
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 Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:35 pm Post subject: complicated issue with /etc/postfix/alias |
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hi!
I have here a small server that should poll my and my girlfriends mailaccounts and put the mails in their .maildir. everything is fine exept one thing:
my girlfriend has got an account hername@mydomain.com whereas I happen to own the default pop box on that domain. so all mails to mydomain.com should reach me and only the ones at hername@mydomain.com are hers.
now I want to have my postfix aliasfile to be exactly like that.
I tried:
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heruser: hername
myuser: *
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now the getting of mail does just fine. but I cannot send anymore mails to hername@mydomain.com since the user is not known to my server...
any ideas?
thanks in advance!
/christian |
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saccory
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:44 am Post subject: |
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What prgramm do you use for mail retrieval? With fetchmail you can specify the account to deliver mail to explicit using
| Code: | | poll SERVERNAME protocol PROTOCOL username NAME password PASSWORD LOCALUSER here |
You also may want to take a look at http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_alias |
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caefer
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:08 am Post subject: |
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yes, I use fetchmail and the delivery is not the problem.
the problem ist, that when I send mail to her, the server replies that it does not know hername as a user and so does not send it..
but I think I fixed it. I added an alias to /etc/mail/aliases
| Code: | | hermailname: hersystemname |
now I can send mail to her! 
thanks anyway!
/christian |
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saccory
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| caefer wrote: | | the problem ist, that when I send mail to her, the server replies that it does not know hername as a user and so does not send it.. |
That's why I pointed out, that you can configure fetchmail to use a different local name, than the receiver in the mail. You don't _need_ any aliases at all. |
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caefer
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:07 am Post subject: |
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my fetchmail already does poll hermailname@.. in /home/hersystemname/.maildir.
the problem I got occured, when I send mail to hermailname@..
maybe I am missunderstanding things here?
/christian |
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saccory
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:56 am Post subject: |
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Or I am. You can _poll_ a mailbox and _deliver_ mail to any user on your system, even if he has a differrent username. Of course you can only _send_ local mail to existing users.
But you already figured your problem out, anyway. |
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