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| Author: | got_milk [ Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Postfix - Redirecting email to address |
After starting fresh with a clean installation of Debian 6 on my Linode, following this great guide on the Linode library, I went to the sometimes daunting task of setting up mail. With some time and effort I managed to get Postfix/amavisd-new/clamav/SpamAssassin and dovecot working wonderfully. What I'd like to do now, however, is work out a way that mail coming to certain addresses can be redirected to me. For example, I want mail addressed to postmaster@example.com to be redirected to me@example.com, if that makes sense. I tried Googling and all the suggestions pointed towards /etc/aliases, but according to the man pages that file is just for local accounts and not for virtual domains. If someone could let me know how I would be able to accomplish this, I would really appreciate it. EDIT: Okay, so I found that /etc/aliases is actually the solution, but I figured out that it only correctly redirects mail sent to postmaster@host.example.com and not postmaster@example.com. How can I make Postfix redirect that mail? EDIT 2: I poked around some more and found that adding an entry in the forwardings table in the MySQL database pointing from postmaster@example.com to me@example.com, it does work! Is this the correct method of doing this? It just feels a little redundant since I already have /etc/aliases pointing to correct addresses. |
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| Author: | Vance [ Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Postfix - Redirecting email to address |
If you are using virtual domains, you should stick with that and do your configuration of mailboxes there and leave /etc/aliases alone. |
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| Author: | got_milk [ Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Postfix - Redirecting email to address |
Great, thanks! |
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