> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Joshua Rodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 1999 02:00
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: forwarding virtual domain mail to a specific host
> 
> I wanted to run this by some smarter people before wasting 
> too much time
> doing this the wrong way.
> 
> I want to have mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] fowarded to 
> the machine
> 'faxserver' with the exact same address.  The faxserver knows 
> that mail
> sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be faxed to the ATTN of 
> user at the
> phone number <phonenumber>.

put anything.fax:faxserver into your control/smtproutes (and
control/rcpthosts) instead of your control/virtualdomains

> 
> Do I need to create an MX record on the local nameserver for 
> this to be at
> all reasonably accomplished?  I assume this is the best 
> approach; let me
> know if there is a better/simpler way to do something like create a
> virtual domain with remote delivery.

your MX for anything.fax should point to your mailserver. Exception:
anything.fax is the DNS-Hostname of this server.

> 
> Lastly, I'd like to block mail from outside of the organization from
> reaching the .fax program.  Is this appropriate to do from 
> within qmail?
> I don't clearly see when such a test would be made.  Would it 
> be better
> for me to simply perform a procmail test of some kind at the point of
> delivery?
> 

If you use smtproutes, I think it's a job of your faxserver.

> 
> Sorry if this is all idiocy, I've been reading quite a bit of 
> the qmail
> docs and not really getting handle on it all so far.
> 
> -josh
> 

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