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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Darrin Domoney on April 27, 2002, 03:46:23 AM

Title: Qmail address rewriting
Post by: Darrin Domoney on April 27, 2002, 03:46:23 AM
Ok, we are busy evaluating SME as a Internet platform and have some minor challenges. The major hurdle I see to full deployment of SME is the ability to act as a mail server. Specifically the following issues:

1) ability to relay SMTP mail from other networks.... pop before SMTP will probably solve this.

2) address rewriting for virtual domains.... is there any way for Qmail to do this ? I know that is fundamentally the antithesis of Qmail's design but certainly someone has managed to work around this... or are we just asking too much of SME? (ie: client uses pop before SMTP to allow SME to act as their primary SMTP server but wants their from address to be correctly displayed in outgoing mail).

Thanks,
Darrin
Title: Re: Qmail address rewriting
Post by: Greg Brooks on April 27, 2002, 10:01:36 PM
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the problem, but I think there's a user-submitted HOWTO on this. Check out http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html and see if it solves your problem.

I'm new to SME as well, and also evaluating -- this fix has allowed outbound mail to look like it's going out properly.

The problem on my end has been proper DNS configuration -- but I won't bore you with the details. :)

Regards,
Greg B.
Title: Re: Qmail address rewriting
Post by: Kevin Manderson on April 29, 2002, 09:23:37 AM
Hi,

I have been trying to do a simple (in sendmail) address rewrite. I have a user with a mail address that is 13 characters long. The SME interface refuses it. I tried editing some of the username files to add it in as a fixed address rewrite. Now we can't see the users or the ldap inforamtoin at all. I have reverted all entries changed to as they were but something is corrupt.

So outcome is don't try address rewriting from the backend.  I am probably going to reinstall and then put up a machine running sendmail so I can get useful usernames etc, but keep the SME for the web/ibay environments.

Kevin