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Sei Satzparad
Asked: 2011-10-10 16:37:59 +0800 CST

Postfix Conditional MX Forwarding

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So here's the problem.

"Someguy" wants to transfer his domain and website to me so I can take care of it. But Someguy's primary email address is "[email protected]". If he transfers thatsite.com's DNS to me, the emails will no longer get to his provider.

I could just set the MX records for thatsite.com to point back to his email provider so he would keep getting his email, but then I couldn't have an email at thatsite.com.

What I need to do is configure Postfix so it sends only emails addressed to [email protected] back to his provider's mail servers.

linux domain-name-system email postfix

1 Answers

    1. Manage domain mail on own postfix
    2. Use virtual_alias_maps

    virtual_alias_maps (default: $virtual_maps) Optional lookup tables that alias specific mail addresses or domains to other local or remote address. The table format and lookups are documented in virtual(5). For an overview of Postfix address manipulations see the ADDRESS_REWRITING_README document.

    This feature is available in Postfix 2.0 and later. The default value is backwards compatible with Postfix version 1.1.

    If you use this feature with indexed files, run "postmap /etc/postfix/virtual" after changing the file.

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