Re: Postfix configuration (mail to root)

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 22:55:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> [..]
> >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. :-)

Glad to be of help.

Regards,
Andrei
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