Hi all.
I have a somewhat complicated situation for which the simplest solution
is
a mail relay. I want a completely open mail relay that will accept mail
to be delivered to any domain whatsoever BUT I want it to only relay
through
one destination SMTP host.
We are setting up a "temporary" mail relay which catches mail sent to
the address of a mail server which is no longer the MX for our site, but
which may have mail sent to it by sites whose DNS hasn't updated to our
new MX records yet. I simply want our relay system to accept any mail
whatsoever, destined for anybody whatsoever (in essense, an "open
relay")
but relay all mail directly to our real mail server. The real mail
server will handle the virtual domains, and bouncing mail, etc, all
itself.
Is there an easy way to set qmail up this way? I set the smtproutes
file
to route mail to the new mail server, and everything works for our
actual domain (plumbdesign.com) as I have plumbdesign.com in the "me"
file of the relay. The problem comes with virtual domains - I don't
want to have to
set up virtual domains on the relay server just to have it route mail
for those domains; I just want it to catch all mail destined for anybody
and relay the mail to the real mail server, letting the real mail server
handle virtual domains and bounces, etc.
In order to cause our qmail-smtpd to accept mail destined for any host
whatsoever, I set the "RELAYCLIENT" environment variable in the shell
that runs qmail-smtpd from inetd.
Here is an example bounce message:
Return-Path: <bji>
Received: by plumbdesign.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA24448; Mon, 27 Sep
1999 10:39:40 -0400
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 24435 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 1999 14:39:39 -0000
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 24430 invoked for bounce); 27 Sep 1999 14:39:38 -0000
Date: 27 Sep 1999 14:39:38 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 891
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at plumbdesign.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local.
(#5.4.6)
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (qmail 24428 invoked from network); 27 Sep 1999 14:39:38 -0000
Received: from kelvin.plumbdesign.com (HELO plumbdesign.com)
(209.116.169.97)
by level.plumbdesign.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 1999 14:39:38 -0000
Received: (qmail 2046 invoked from network); 27 Sep 1999 14:40:41 -0000
Received: from millennium.plumbdesign.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
by kelvin.plumbdesign.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 1999 14:40:41 -0000
This is a test.
So to distill my question down to something very simple:
How can I configure qmail to relay all mail, regardless of the
destination, to another mail host? Or is there a better way to
do what I am trying to do?
Thanks,
Bryan
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