Re: How to set up Qmail as a front-end (relaying) server?

[Chris Johnson]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:15:50PM +0300, Ali Sahin wrote:
> >     In that case you should be all set.  Are you experiencing problems
> > with this working, or were you just getting a sanity check on your
> > configuration?
> -------
> Yeah, when I try to send an email to a user (which has a mailbox on the
> internal server but does not have one on the Qmail) qmail refuses to pass
> that mail to my internal server. It's going to be a real hard work for me to
> do if Qmail requires me to open a mailbox for every user on the internal
> server even though the mere thing it will do is to forward the messages.

I'd like to see evidence of that. If your domains aren't listed in
control/locals or control/virtualdomains (and they shouldn't be), then whether
there's a mailbox on the qmail relay for the user name in question is
irrelevant. If they are listed in control/locals or control/virtualdomains,
then nothing will be relayed to your internal server.

What does "qmail refuses to pass that mail to my internal server" mean,
exactly?

Chris