nightcoder's questions

Current situation:
We have a VPS that hosts a website example.org. Exim is configured to work as a smarthost. All emails sent through exim are successfully relayed to another mail server (that is working on example.com).

Goal:
To forward mail sent to *@example.org to *@example.com, i.e. change the recipient's address from *@example.org to *@example.com.

Problem:
If I send email to address *@example.org, then it seems exim doesn't change the address, it still relays the message to another mail server but recipient is still *@example.org. Maybe the redirect is not applied for some reason.

Configuration and logs:

/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf:

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='example.org'
dc_relay_domains='example.org'
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='0.0.0.0/32'
dc_smarthost='example.com::26'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'

/etc/exim4/conf.d/router/999_exim4-config_redirect (created by me):

 domain_redirect:  
     debug_print = "R: forward for $local_part@$domain"  
     driver = redirect  
     domains = example.org
     data = [email protected]

(for now data is set to a specific address for simplicity and testing)

exim log when sending email to [email protected] (should be redirected to [email protected]):

2012-03-20 19:40:07 1SA4ud-0005Dw-7k <= [email protected] U=www-data P=local S=657
2012-03-20 19:40:08 1SA4ud-0005Dw-7k => [email protected] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=domain2.com [184.172.146.66] X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN="C=US,2.5.4.17=#13053737303932,ST=TX,L=Houston,STREET=Suite 400,STREET=11251 Northwest Freeway,O=HostGator.com,OU=HostGator.com,OU=Comodo PremiumSSL Wildcard,CN=*.hostgator.com"
2012-03-20 19:40:08 1SA4ud-0005Dw-7k Completed

So, the address is not changed :(

Please help! I'm trying to make it work for half a day already :(

Solution:
So, aseq helped me to solve the problem. Although the solution looked a little bit weird to me. When I tried to set dc_use_split_config='true' it didn't help, it looked like my redirect file was not used. Also when I tried to add those redirect lines to the end of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template it didn't help either. But when I tried to paste those lines after "begin routers" line it finally worked!

Today I have changed mysql config file and restarted mysql with:

service mysql restart

And saw the following:

Stopping mysql database server: mysqld.
Starting mysql database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables..

After that the mysql service started working, but later I saw errors on my website and realized that InnoDB engine was not started.
In /var/log/daemon.log I saw the following lines:

InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 5242880 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 67108864 bytes!
[ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
[ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.

I deleted the log files and restarted mysql, but that's not the question.

The question is:
How can I know there were errors on starting mysql without looking into daemon.log file? Maybe it's possible to setup printing mysql startup errors to stdout?

We have linked the domain of our company to Google Apps and we also have a Kerio Connect (mail server) installed in our company which uses Google as SMTP relay. As google requires SMTP authentication we use one of our mail addresses for authentication. But it causes google to substitute "From" header with the address of the user used for authentication.

For example, we want to send email from [email protected]. User [email protected] is used for SMTP authentication in SMTP Relay settings of Kerio Connect mail server. The mail gets delivered, but on recipient side it says that the message is from [email protected], though it was actually sent from [email protected] (Reply-to header is also set to [email protected] :( ).

In the "Sending mail from a different address" section of Gmail help there is an explanation of how I can send email from, say, [email protected] when [email protected] is used for authentication. - They say I need to sign up to Gmail with user2@ and add user1@ as another mail address I own (Mail settings -> Accounts -> "Send mail as" section). And it works. For example, when I sign up with [email protected] and add [email protected] as another mail address I own, then I can send email from [email protected] using [email protected] for authentication, and the recipient will see that the message is sent from [email protected].

But what if I have a hundred of email addresses on the domain? I don't want to add those 100 addresses in the settings.
I just want that any user (*@company.org) could send email using [email protected] user for authentication and I want recipient to see that the message is sent from *@company.org, not [email protected].

Is there an easy way to do that?

We are going to setup a new system for our MySql server (v5.1.58) and currently we are choosing between Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.
Do you think we may get any performance increase if using Windows Server 2008 R2 (comparing to Windows 7)?