Re: Postfix troubles (rewriting addresses)
Joachim Trinkwitz, 2001-Nov-10 20:15 +0100:
> Dear all,
>
> to rewrite my mail address correctly (ppp connection to university
> ISP), I inserted the following lines in the config files:
>
> - /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mailout.uni-bonn.de
> myhostname = wabe.germanistik.uni-bonn.de
> masquerade_domains = uni-bonn.de
> - /etc/postfix/canonical:joachim jtr@uni-bonn.de
> - /etc/postfix/sender_canonical:joachim jtr@uni-bonn.de
>
> This works for my part, but there is a problem when I send a mail to
> someone with an address like `name@xyz.uni-bonn.de': the address is
> delivered correctly, but the `To:' address in the header too is
> rewritten to `name@uni-bonn.de' (without the `xyz'). This wouldn't be
> a real problem, but I'm driving people crazy who've got a mail with
> such an address in the `CC' field and wants to do a `Reply to all' ...
>
> Hoping someone can give me a clue,
> joachim
It looks like postfix is setting the deliverto: header with the
correct desitination but changing the To: header to your
masquaraded domain. By masquarading, postfix will strip any
subdomain structures, so you probably shouldn't be using this
feature.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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