I have configured a qmail machine to be a pure email gateway/relay
(no local delivery in terms of deliverying a message to a local mailbox)
using virtualdomains.
All incoming email gets routed based upon the recipient address
as follows:
rcpt address smtp host
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> name.domain.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> smtp.domain.com
user@*.domain.com -> smtp.domain.com
etc...
The MX records for domain.com and the wildcard *.domain
are pointing at my gateway machine (gateway.domain.com).
I have implemented the routing of incoming email on the relay
by configuring qmail as follows:
/var/qmail/control:
me: gateway.domain.com
rcpthosts: domain.com
.domain.com
virtualdomains: domain.com:alias-smtp
name.domain.com:alias-name
.domain.com:alias-smtp
smtproutes: smtp.domain.com:[IP addr of smtp.domain.com]
name.domain.com:[IP addr of name.domain.com]
There are no other files in the control directory.
Note: [ The gateway has no DNS date for any of the machines names
that it relays data to ].
/var/qmail/alias:
.qmail-smtp-default: |forward ${EXT2}@smtp.domain.com
.qmail-name-default: |forward ${EXT2}@name.domain.com
This configuration seems to "work".
Any comments on items I may have missed or perhaps a "better way"
to configure this relay?
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