Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
