How to send Mail to another server

Rob Kettle rob at kettle.org.uk
Sat Jun 19 06:31:49 IST 2010


Thanks.  The virtusertable route looks good.

much appreciated.

Rob


On 18/06/2010 22:56, Peter Farrow wrote:
> To pass off specific_user at somedomain.co.uk, when the server already 
> delivers locally will require a sub domain or alternate hidden domain 
> to move the mail onto for that specific user.
>
> For example, if sendmail has somedmain.co.uk in its local-host-names 
> then all mail for that domain is considered local.
>
> The only way to redirect a mail for a specific user is to either have 
> a separate address for that user which is hosted by the other server 
> and referenced either by MX or mailertable, or to deliver directly to 
> the fully qualified domain name of the other server as follows:
>
> since the server already handles everything at somedomain.co.uk, if you 
> are using a virtusertable you can add a line like this:
>
> specific_user at somedomain.co.uk 
> specific_user at otherservername.somedomain.co.uk
>
> if you are not using a virtusertable you can add it to /etc/aliases
>
> specific_user: specific_user at otherservername.somedomain.co.uk
>
> and run newaliases after the change.
>
> you can check delivery with:
>
> sendmail -bv specific_user
>
> Don't forget to make sure the the other server is configured to accept 
> mail delivered to its fully qualified hostname,
>
> Regards
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
> On 18/06/2010 20:09, Alex Neuman wrote:
>> Mailertable if using sendmail.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Kettle<rob at kettle.org.uk>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:54:55
>> To: MailScanner discussion<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: How to send Mail to another server
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> apologies if I missed the obvious but is there a way in sendmail and
>> mailscanner (running on Centos) to locally deliver mail by default but
>> deliver to another mail server for certain addresses. Any suggestions
>> appreciated.
>>
>> ie.everything at somedomain.co.uk   is delivered to local accounts on the
>> server but
>>         specific_user at somedomain.co.uk  is passed off to another server.
>>
>> many thanks
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>    
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