On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:44:51AM -0400, Brent Kennedy wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has a somewhat detailed instruction sheet for
> getting TMDA to send all the mail it filters to an external server.

There's a FAQ that details this process for the qmail MTA:

  http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=show&file=faq03.008.htp

You might get some ideas from the approach used there, although most of
it is quite different from the way Postfix does things.

> Currently, i use postfix as a stand alone box that filters mail before it
> hits my sendmail box.  Is there anyway( i couldnt figure this out from the
> FAQ's) to have TMDA forward the mail to the second mail server?

I started working on something like that back in April, and posted what I
had to the tmda-users list:

  http://mla.libertine.org/tmda-users/2003-04/msg00307.html

My experience with Postfix isn't quite as strong as with qmail, so I ran
out of ideas, but you might be able to spot the missing step.

> -Mail arrives from internet and is filtered by postfix
> -Postfix then forwards the mail to TMDA which sends verification requests
> back thru the postfix to the original sender.
> *here is where i am stuck, once postfix gets the verification back and TMDA
> confirms, TMDA drops it to a mail directory?  If so, how can i get it to
> connect to the sendmail server to deliver the mail instead?  I understand
> that it cannot send it back thru postfix because postfix is setup to forward
> to the TMDA(big circle if that happened).

Another approach would be to configure getmail/fetchmail on the destination
server and retrieve all the mail after Postfix/TMDA has delivered it to the
local mailbox.  This avoids having to requeue the message after TMDA finishes
its processing.

> If there is no way to get TMDA to send email out, could i use a second
> instance of postfix with a different configuration, basically setup to
> forward the domains email to the sendmail server, to forward the cleared
> mail thru?

Yeah, that sounds like a lot of unnecessary work though.  Certainly this
can be solved with a single instance of Postfix.

Cory

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Cory Wright
Stand Blue Technology
http://www.standblue.net/
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