I have never used qmail, course i don't know if its all the different from sendmail. That being said, looks like alot of finagling to get it work the way you are trying. Before I attempt that I am going to give the second instance a shot since that requires very little configuration change and is relatively simple to do. I will let you know what happens.
-Brent "Cory Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > -- > Cory Wright > Stand Blue Technology > http://www.standblue.net/ > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
