Postfix Equivalent to qmail Alias Domains

Hey all,
I've been Googling, but can't find an answer to this one. Does postfix have the functionality equivalent to qmail's Alias Domains feature?
I want to have one mail server to handle mail for all my servers, but without ditching the hostname part of my servers when sending mail. That was confusing.
Example:
I have 3 servers:
earth.mydomain.com
venus.mydomain.com
mars.mydomain.com
I want mail sent from each of those servers to be sent as '[email protected]' and '[email protected]' or whatever user on whichever server it's being sent from.
I want to point the MX records for the above 3 servers, to the one server that handles mail for 'mydomain.com' and then have that server alias 'earth.mydomain.com' to 'mydomain.com'.
[email protected] - delivered to [email protected]
[email protected] - delivered to [email protected]
[email protected] - delivered to [email protected]
This way I don't have to maintain user tables on the mail server for every user on each server.
This is subtly different to a catch-all virtual mailbox alias in that:
1) I still only want to accept mail if the '[email protected]' exists (not catch all!).
2) The forward should keep the user the same, but 'catchall' the host part of the domain.
Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-08-15 22:58:35)

No, unfortunately not.

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KenGra wrote:
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hi
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shane_hjorth wrote:
_naiton_ wrote:
i'm new on solaris and Sun Messaging Server Please in future always provide the exact version of messaging server (./imsimta version). This may not be essential for this question but it is a good habit to get into.
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====================================
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=====================================
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[1] If you use canonical names, e.g. user jonsmith inside becomes [email protected] on the outside you also have aliases that do the reverse [email protected] becomes jonsmith. But that latter name may get $myorigin added by postfix. If your aliases al are fqdn in the form of [email protected] this will not happen, but that is a bad solution (you won't catch all uses and it is hard to keep consistent).
[2] http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html
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bash-3.2# ./imsimta version
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-3.01 64bit (built Dec 9 2008)
libimta.so 7.0-3.01 64bit (built 09:24:13, Dec 9 2008)
bash-3.2# ./commadmin -vV Delegated Administrator 6.4-3.01 (B2008-10-22)

jandrusiak wrote:
I'm trying to create an alias of a domain name. That is <anyname>@a.com is the same mailbox as <anyname>@b.com. I was trying to use Delegated Administrator to set this up. In the DA interface, there is a box under root->a.com (menu)->organizations->Organization Properties->Domain Information there is a field called: "Alias Names for Domain". I set this to "b.com". I'm assuming this is supposed to be a domain alias.
This seems to map into the ldap schema as: associateddomain: b.com
However, when I send mail, it doesn't go through. Instead I get:
05-Feb-2009 13:09:20.52 tcp_intranet JES 0 [email protected] rfc822; [email protected] 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
My main question is the "Alias Names for Domain" supposed to work as I expect, or is it there to do something else.
I am able to make it work if I set up a user alias in DA. That in, in DA, for user [email protected], I set 'Email Aliases:' to [email protected]. Then mail to [email protected] works.
There is two methods to create a domain alias. The first is an MTA-level domain rewrite rule which rewrites the envelope recipient address from <something>@b.com => <something>@a.com. This approach is much quicker to implement in the short term but has the disadvantage of limited flexibility i.e. users are "forced" to have the email alias.
To achieve this domain alias you add the following rewrite rule to your imta.cnf file:
b.com $E$F$U%a.com@localhostThe second method is the one that you already started to implement. That method is to assign the alias domain (b.com) to a specific user/group schema 2 branch by adding "associateddomain: b.com". Then for each user who needs to have the alias, add an entry to their Email Aliases (mailalternateaddress:).
The advantage of the second method is that you only have to assign an email alias to those users who want/need it. Also if the user has [email protected], there is no reason why they have to have [email protected], you could assign them [email protected] instead.
I recommend you continue with the second method.
Regards,
Shane.

Domain aliasing with iMS 5.2?

We're testing iMS 5.2 with direct ldap to ds 5.1 and need to do a domain alias. We have our-name.com and ourname.com. We always use ourname.com but some still use the original our-name.com so we would like it to work as an alias. Vanity domain isn't viable.
The provisioning guide has the ldif code for creating an aliased domain entry in the directory. This went without a problem. But what do I have to do to get IMS to recognize our-name.com is just an alias for ourname.com?
THANKS!

In 5.2 or even 5.1, you can simply create the domain alias in LDAP and let the MTA do the rest.
dc=sample,dc=com,o=internet
inetdomainbasedn: o=sample, o=hostings, o=isp.com
dc=alias,dc=com,o=internet
aliasedobjectname=dc=sample,dc=com,o=internet
it used to work fine in 5.1 but I can't make it work in 5.2 (direct ldap) : I looked at the directory server logs and ims indeed follows "aliasedobjectname", then searches in the inetdomainbasedn. BUT it searches for the "alias domain" email address ([email protected]), not for the aliased one ([email protected])
Adding [email protected] as a mailAlternate or mailSupplement attribute is NOT a workaround :<

Virtual domains and their installation

Hello again Alex,
and anyone else able to enlighten me.
Thank you all for your help the last time I was in need.
I'm setting up Postfix by editing the postfix files directly without using server admin due to it's limitations. Especially since I'm using an external GW in a DMZ along with an internal server delivering the mail.
And now I would like to add virtual domains using "Postfix virtual MAILBOX example: separate domains, non-UNIX accounts". Is this possible with OS X?
I have read what is on postfix.org, I have read what is in Alex's installation guide but there are a few things I'm not getting.
I've created the virtual domains and all that stuff but I'm not getting the creation of user access. Do you mean I actually need to create each and every user acessing mail in Workgroup manager?
Could you point me to some information that bypasses the use of server admin but is still usefull in setting up mail under OS X. I don't want to use SA since I do not want to ruin my manual setup of the Postfix files.
Kind regards
Hans

Are you then saying it would be easier to define the
users in workgroup manager and use a couple of
aliases for each user acessing mail?
Definitely easier, but with the limitations you already know.
Is it possible, using this method to use names like
[email protected], [email protected] etc. rather than
[email protected], [email protected] etc.
Sure, just follow my tutorial.
And when
logging into the mailservice do I then have to use
the full [email protected] as a user login name to
access the virtual mailboxes?
Yes, full name with domain.
And is it correct to assume that when using the
server for more than one domain I need to define the
first as a local domain and the rest as virtual
domains?
Yes (if you want to have "hans" as a different user in each domain).
Alex
P.S. Just make a backup fo main.cf so you can copy paste changes that might get hosed by Server Admin. Once your setup is complete, adding users through WGM or aliases through /etc/postfix/virtual will not touch main.cf

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