Re: Postfix configuration (mail to root)

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 22:42:59 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 20:36:34 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[..]
You can do this with rewriting. I just set this up today so its fresh
:)

/etc/postfix/main.cf:

smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic

then create /etc/postfix/generic with something like this:

user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and run 'postmap /etc/postfix/generic

Now if the mail is for root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx it will be delivered
according to your aliases file. Mail for user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will
be sent to respective address with rewriten From:

I can't seem to make it do what I want it to, which would be the exact
opposite of what you're doing. My problem was that

% /usr/lib/sendmail root << EOF
Subject: test

Test
EOF

Would result in a mail being sent to root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx What I wanted
was a locally delivered email (according to the /etc/aliases file).

After some research I added the following to my /etc/postfix/main.cf:

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost

That resulted in local delivery for mail sent to root@localhost and
root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (and /etc/aliases is used for that :-).

I don't understand how is that different than your original config, but
if it works ... :)

At first root@localhost didn't work, now it does. That's a difference.

Mail sent to root by cron is still delivered to my.remote.host so the
difference is of little use.

/M

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