On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 22:55:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
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>Ok, but it works for me. If I send mail to root (without @localhost),
>then my user receives it (according /etc/aliases). If I send mail to a
>real internet address then postfix takes care of the proper rewriting
>so that my smarthost doesn't deny it.
Hmmm, I believe I've figured it out.
I set /etc/mailname to contain a domain name that it's possible to send
email from. In that way every user on the sysmte could send email, but
local delivery was not possible without explicitly addressing to a
destination that occured in postfix's $mydestination. This is due to
the automatic addition of @$myorigin (which I now know can be controlled
in postfix's configuration, but I'm not sure what impact changing the
default will have).
You instead left localhost.localdomain in /etc/mailname. This means
that addressing to 'root' (without @<domain>) is possible. However, it
forces you to rewrite addresses for each user on the way out
(/etc/postfix/generic).
I've switched to your setup since it means things work better and I
don't regularly add mail-sending users to my system anyway.
Thanks for helping me understand this. :-)
/M
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