Re: Forwd mail

[Ivan Jager <ivanj@netvision.com.py>]

Pedro Braga wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> is there a way to the MX server redirect the SMTP connection to another
> domain without receving the mail?
> 
>     What I want is to serve a domain (domain.com) and when a box trying
> to relay mail to user@domain.com in my server it would get a response
> like: "ok I serve thar domain and the user exists, but deliver the mail
> to user2@domain2.com"
> 
>     I understand that if I use the ".forward" in the user account I
> would get the same effect except that the mail would be sent to my
> server and then my server would forward to the 2nd address -- spends
> bandwith!!!
> 
>     I think SMTP does't support that but.. just in case!

I don't know if you can do that without modifying some code. What we are
doing is using port forwarding to forward port 25 to a host on our
internal network, but that forwards all traffic to port 25 of that IP
address, not just mail for a certain domain, and it also doesn't
translate usernames.

Anyways, even if you do forward it like that, you won't save any
bandwidth, only a little disk space maybe.

¿Why can't you just change the MX to point to the other server?

-- 
Ivan Jager