Can MailScanner Do Smart Relaying?

Mike Kercher mike at vesol.com
Fri May 12 00:33:52 IST 2006


You need to use /etc/mail/mailertable :)

Mike
 

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of ShaunM [MailShield]
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:11 PM
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: Can MailScanner Do Smart Relaying?
> 
> Heya Guys,
> 
> I have a bit of a tricky one for you....
> 
> I have setup a second server to take some pressure of my main 
> server which is handling web hosting / mail filtering / pop 
> retrieval etc.
> 
> However upon doing this this changes the network scope a a little bit.
> 
> For arguments sake we will call it like this
> 
> Box A : Original Main Server Handles everything currently.
> Box B : New Server built with mailscanner/Sendmail/mailwatch etc.
> 
> I need to know how to control the sending of email from box b 
> to the main box a. I want flexibility in this so I can handle 
> it at a domain level. I will explain why.....
> 
> Most of my clients retrieve mail by using pop3 which is fine. 
> If I setup a smart relay in Sendmail it will send *all* mail to box A
> 
> However I want to control it at a domain level so for 
> domain.x.y.z goto Box A and for domain.s.o.s relay to their 
> exchange server or similar.
> 
> Normally I would expect to do this from the MTA level such as 
> Sendmail, however with MailScanner installed and using 
> Sendmail mailer-relay like I should be totally ignores what I 
> want. So I was wondering if there is another way?
> 
> I know that this might not be the place to ask and should ask 
> MTA groups but I took a longshot with this thinking 
> MailScanner might have some config in It that will help me 
> with this problem.
> 
> Thanks
> Shaun
> 
> 
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