[ILUG] I thought you didn't have to fight postfix...

[Anders Holm]

Did you check the manual/FAQ?

Here's a step by step guide in any case, that may prove useful as well.. ;)
http://postfix.teleglobe.net/faq.html#some_local

Enjoy!

//Anders//
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>On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:22:58PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
>> Well, I'm fighting with it.
>> 
>> setup I have is a dialup internet account with a single email address.  I
>> want to use that email address with "+" extensions to provide mail for
>> multiple users (eg. "mailaccount+user at isp.net"  to be delivered to
>> "user at server.localdomain").
>
>Okay, firstly I haven't had to do any of this before, but it might actually
>be correct, and it should give you an idea of how to solve your problem :)
>
>First of all, use in main.cf:
>recipient_canonical_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/recipient_map.pcre
>
># /etc/postfix/recipient_map.pcre
># Rewrite domain+user to user - I don't think the address is re-run
># through trivial-rewrite, so add the domain here.
>/^mailaccount\+(.*)@/	${1}@server.localdomain
>
>
>> I also want to rewrite outgoing mail from
>> "user at server.localdomain" to "mailaccount+user at isp.net".  
>
>And here in main.cf:
>sender_canonical_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/sender_map.pcre
>
># /etc/postfix/sender_map.pcre
># Rewrite user@ to mailaccount+user at isp.net
>/^(.*)@/	mailaccount+${1}@isp.net
>
>> Not asking too much so far eh?  Well, I've got another desire.  I want to 
>> have mail from _all_ hosts within the domain (which is, of course, a 
>> fictional domain) rewritten to the "isp.net" domain (ie. 
>> "user at clientxx.localdomain" is mapped to "mailaccount+user at isp.net" just 
>> as "user at server.localdomain" gets mapped to "mailaccount+user at isp.net").
>
>I'm ignoring the domain name in the sender_map.pcre above so I think
>this should just fall out.
>
>> I want to use Maildir mailboxes (for sharing with NFS) but I'm not sure if
>> I can specify "/var/spool/mail/" as mail_spool_directory to force Maildir
>> use.
>> #home_mailbox = Maildir/
>> mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
>
>According to local(8), it now supports Maildir for mail_spool_directory
>when you specify the trailing slash (support was added in snapshot release
>20010701).
>
>Hope that helps :) Read up on canonical(5) in particular...
>Gary.
>
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