Am 19.09.2011 16:29, schrieb Tawanda Kavayi: > On 19/09/2011 16:01, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Tawanda Kavayi: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to postfixadmin, but not to postfix, and have just done my >>> first installation. My problem is that I would like mail for unknown >>> local users to be relayed to another server, instead of being being >>> rejected. I have done this before with unix accounts using the >> That is a terrible idea. If the other server throws away mail >> for non-existent recipients, then people lose mail when the sender >> makes a typing error; if the other server doesn't throw away mail, >> then you will send spam back to innocent people. >> >> Instead, tell Postfix what users must be delivered elsewhere, by >> listing their local and remote email address in virtual_alias_maps. >> >> Wietse >> > > The scenario is that the one server doesn't throw away unknown mail because > it has only a few local users setup on > it. If one of these local users sends mail to a non-local user, in the same > email domain, mail is sent to a bigger > server where the bulk of users are configured. This is the final destination > and if a user does not exist on that > main server, an error is generated.
so you should make your setup simpler or put your configuration in sql-tables however, the MX has to reject unknown rcpt directly or you are a backscatter and will be blocked soon somewhere
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