Daniel L'Hommedieu:
> Hi all.
>
> I posted this the other day but got no replies, on or off list.
> I'm really hoping someone might have an idea of what I can do
> here. I've been looking into things for the last couple days and
> have not made any progress.
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> Thanks.
>
> Daniel
>
> ---
>
> Today I think I am trying to do something similar to what Bob Eastbrook was
> discussing in late December. Here is what he said back then:
> > Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I've looked all over and I don't see it
> > addressed.
> >
> > I have a wildcard MX record for *.example.com which points to
> > mail.example.com. I know how to configure postfix to accept
> > individual virtual domains such as host1.example.com, but how can I set it
> > up to handle any domains which match the wildcard MX record?
> > e.g.:
> >
> > b...@host1.example.com
> > b...@host2.example.com
> > b...@gibberish.example.com
> >
> > ... should all map to b...@mail.example.com. I'm only concerned about the
> > user "bob" if that matters. I won't know in advance all the hosts in
> > example.com, so I can't add them one at a time.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Bob
>
> Specifically, I am trying to build a mail catcher for all of my servers. My
> production servers run sendmail for outbound mail delivery, but on every one
> of them I am blocking inbound mail connections. I have set up another system,
> running postfix, for the purpose of catching mail to all of my production
> server systems. (My production server systems are database and web servers.)
>
> I implemented the solution suggested by Wietse, which I quote here:
> > APPEND a regular expression map to your virtual_alias_maps
> > definition.
> >
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> > virtual_alias_maps =
> > ...stuff you perhaps already have...
> > pcre:/etc/postfix/virtual_alias.pcre
> >
> > /etc/postfix/virtual_alias.pcre:
> > # Send b...@whatever.example.com to b...@example.com.
> > /^bob@([^.]+\.)+example\.com$/ b...@example.com
> >
> > Further reading:
> > man 5 virtual (http://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html)
> > man 5 pcre_table (http://www.postfix.org/pcre_table.5.html)
> > man pcrepattern (http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt, look for section
> > "PCREPATTERN")
>
> I am interested in catching mail to root, not "bob," but I'm sure that that
> is immaterial. ;) I have root aliased as follows:
> root: root-l...@lists.example.com
>
> The idea I have is that r...@foo.example.com will get caught by this mail
> catcher, which will then redirect it to the mailing list on the mail list
> server.
>
> I have an MX record for one of my systems, and I sent email to
> r...@foo.example.com to test it. The mail did get handled by the mail
> catcher, but instead of accepting the mail and forwarding it on, it rejected
> it with "554 5.7.1 Relay access denied." In another test, I found that this
> solution does work great for users with permission to relay on the mail
> catcher (e.g., when I send to r...@foo.example.com through my mail catcher,
> it redirects as desired), but not when the mail originates elsewhere.
>
> There is a single MX record for my servers, and it points to my mail catcher,
> so I would've thought that mail for r...@foo.example.com, for which my mail
> catcher is the lone MX handler, would get handled by postfix without issue,
> instead of postfix seeing it as a relay.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing a simple step, but I'm not sure what. I seem to recall
> that members of the postfix-users list typically want the output of postconf
> or something similar, but I forget exactly what. Let me know, and I'll send
> it.
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
>
> Daniel
>
>
