[courier-users] Courier as relay mail server

2009-02-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Just so I have this straight, would someone check me out on this procedure. What I want to do is move the destination for a bunch domain names from one machine - machine A - to another on a different network - machine B. After the move, I want any residual mail in the Internet mail system deliver

Re: [courier-users] Courier as relay mail server

2009-02-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:42 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > 1. Set up machine B in DNS-land as the low number (preferred) MX for > each such domain name for which I want mail relayed. > > 2. Make sure that mail to each mailbox or alias in said domain on > machine B is deliverable locally, just a

Re: [courier-users] Courier as relay mail server

2009-02-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Lindsay Haisley writes: Just so I have this straight, would someone check me out on this procedure. What I want to do is move the destination for a bunch domain names from one machine - machine A - to another on a different network - machine B. After the move, I want any residual mail in the I

Re: [courier-users] Courier as relay mail server

2009-02-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thanks, Sam. A little experimentation revealed exactly what you told me to be the way things work, and I got my test domain to forward to the best-preference MX with no problems. The domains in question are not listed in locals, but are part of my virtual mail system. On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:30

Re: [courier-users] Courier as relay mail server - OK. I get it :-)

2009-02-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Ah, I see! Putting something in "Locally-hosted domains" in webadmin puts it in _both_ esmtpacceptmailfor.dir and hosteddomains. If I want to use the box as a backup relay I need to _manually_ put the affected DN in a file in esmtpacceptmailfor.dir and _not_ in hosteddomains. If I do this, then