sending mail to 2 locations

Mike Kercher mike at CAMAROSS.NET
Sun Feb 1 17:12:50 GMT 2004


On the MS box, you *could* use the Archive function to send mail to more
than one user:

FromTo: user1 at yourdomain.com    otheruser at somedomain.org

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Drew Marshall
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:03 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: sending mail to 2 locations
>
> Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
>
> >Is there an easy way in postfix or in MS to send mail to 2 locations?
> >
> >Situation, isp currently hosts dns and email accounts for client. We
> >have an internal mailserver with an MS box as the mail relay
> for the internal server.
> >We want to test with a few of the accounts that currently exist with
> >the isp, so the we have the following transport map on the MS box
> >
> >username1 at domain.com smtp:[192.168.x.x] username2 at domain.com
> >smtp:[192.168.x.x]
> >domain.com       smtp:isp mailserver (primary mx for domain)
> >
> >The plan is to switch the primary MX to the MS box and have isp as
> >secondary and the MS box will forward the test accounts to
> the internal
> >server and any other mail with go to the isp.  Telneting into the MS
> >box, this all works fine. Now however I am wondering how to
> have the MS
> >box send mail for the 2 test accounts to both the internal
> server and isp mailserver.
> >
> >
> Just make an alias map some thing like:
>
> testuser1:   test1 test1 at ispdomain
> testuser2:   test2 test2 at ispdomain
>
> Then
>
> $ newaliases
>
> Should do the trick
>
> >The reason we are going this way is that we want to keep all the
> >current mail running as it is while still be able to test
> and use the
> >internal mailserver until we are satisfied that it is ready for
> >production use.  Can anyone suggest a better method of
> accomplishing the same goal?
> >
> >--
> >Harondel J. Sibble
> >Sibble Computer Consulting
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> >
> >
> Regards
>
> Drew
>
>
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