David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a lot of things about mail delivery that I'm unsure of right > now. Having put more time into thinking about exactly what I want, I've > become less certain about my configuration needs.
Well, you've certainly confused me. :) > What I mean is that I want mail from root to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > n to be delivered without the smtp server ever knowing about it, and > vice versa. > > Does anyone do this? Which MTA do you use? Where are the rules or > facilities to configure this? I'm willing to try just about anything > that will work. If I've lost my marbles, please suggest something > better. Well, let me tell you what my machine is set up to do - it may help you find a solution to your problem. More informationon how I acheived my machine's setup can be found at http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html (a page which already needs updating, despite only being about a month old...) My machine is only connected to the internet intermittently (ppp connection), and so it really has no fixed IP address or permanent hostname visible from the outside. Internally, my machine always has the hostname "cush". (why "cush"? Well, I'd already named the terminal connected to it "nimrod", so...) When I (as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") send a piece of mail to "root" or to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", it gets sent to the root account on my machine. Same goes for when I send a piece of mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or just postmaster. (and when I send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", it goes to my girlfriend's account on my machine). All these messages have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the From: address. When I send a mail message to debian-user@lists.debian.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or indeed to any non-cush address, the mail is sent (as soon as my ppp connection goes up) to my department's smtp server, which then sends it where it needs to go. On the way out, smail on my machine re-writes the from address to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (and puts some sort of appropriate value in as the Sender field). That way, people can reply to me (or mail can get bounced back to me) and it will get into a mailbox that I have fetchmail (on my machine) check regularly. This is all completely transparent to the MTA; as far as it's concerned, I might as well have my own domain name. (that is, I don't have to set any variables in my mail reader to tell it to use a different From: line) At the moment my machine doesn't deal nicely with mail that is forwarded through it, (i.e. from the outside back to the outside) but I should probably just be killing those mails anyway. Also, I've noticed with this setup that pine complains vociferously, even though everything is just fine - I'm trying something out in a couple days that ought to shut it up, though. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
