I am trying to setup a solution using Postfix as MTA.
My requirement is as follows:
- A mail for a particular domain should be relayed to one server.
- In addition to this another copy for the same user, same domain should be relayed to another server.

Basically, one incoming smtp stream split into 2 distinct outgoing relay streams.

See if any one knows how to achieve this through Postfix.

regards
Jignesh Vasani

vi /etc/postfix/transport
domain.tld smtp:[relay.host]ort
.domain.tld smtp:[relay.host]ort
anotherdomain.tld smtp:[relay.host]ort
.anotherdomain.tld smtp:[relay.host]ort

DONT FORGET TO: postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport


in /etc/postfix/main.cf
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport


Now if I could only relay by sender AND authenticate the postfix client to the relayhost of my choice with sender_transport_maps and sasl... (hint, hint)

Suppose that the domain in question is fake.domain, and that mail of the form user@fake.domain should be sent to both user@first.domain and user@second.domain. It's probably a bad idea to accept mail to just anyone at fake.domain because of all the spam we would receive. So, let's say that him@fake.domain and her@fake.domain are the only valid addresses for fake.domain.

First, /etc/postfix/main.cf should contain the following: Next, create the file /etc/postfix/virtual containing the following: Finally, build the hash table and reload postfix: The documentation on the postfix site explains how to do most things.

Thank you RomKnight,

By the transport method that you suggested, mail for domain.tld gets relayed to only the first relay.host
What I want is that it should relay to both the relay host?
Let me know if you know how to make that work.

regs
Jignesh

Thank you berhanie!
By the method you suggested, domain name will be changed to first and second. I want to retain the domain. Further, I do not want to specify all the users for that domain. The user rule set will be set on the 2 relay hosts that I am trying to relay the domain.

regards
Jignesh

jignesh.vasani:

I guess I mislead you.


Where it reads:
anotherdomain.tld smtp:[relay.host]ort
.anotherdomain.tld smtp:[relay.host]ort

should be
anotherdomain.tld smtp:[another_relay.host]ort
.anotherdomain.tld smtp:[another_relay.host]ort

Again, use postmap and reload postfix

RomKnight,
Let me explain my requirement clearly.
-> A mail coming in for lets say an email ID jigs@jigs.com
-> It is recieved by the server and relayed to an IP Address e.g. 10.1.1.1
-> Another copy of the mail is relayed to another IP Address e.g. 10.1.1.2
-> In both the relaying domain name remains the same. The mail is simply relayed to 2 IP addresses simultaneously.

According to the solution you provided, mail for one domain (jigs@jigs.com) will be relayed to an IP Address and mail for another domain (jigs@xyz.com) will be relayed to another.

I want a solution for one domain relayed to 2 IP addresses at the same time.

My bad... sorry. I've interpreted something wrong :s

I don't think i can help much then... never think of that situation until now.

The way to go is reading about the features os postfix on mail routing and some "hacks" on master.cf... i guess.

Have a look to this postfix.org page , http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html , "Supporting multiple ISP accounts in the Postfix SMTP client" , i dont' know if it is your case but it sounds like !!!

Does anyone found a solution for this pb please ? I have the same.

I'm assuming you guys just want to keep an archived copy of the email so....

Install MailScanner and Spamassassin

Create a ruleset for non-spam emails

Ex.
{
To: domain.com deliver store-/var/archive/incoming/domain_com forward archive@domain.com
From: domain.com deliver store-/var/archive/outgoing/domain_com forward archive@domain.com
}

This will take any mail from domain.com deliver it to the intended user, store the email in a file in /var/archive/<direction>/domain_com and then send it to another email account.

If you want it to go to a seperate mail server you can edit the transport map for that subdomain that the mail is forwarded to point to another sub-domain and change "forward archive@domain.com" to "forward archive@archive.domain.com". Otherwise get exim4 and do split spools.


You can also do per user for the ruleset so you could do something like this.

Ex.
{
To: user1@domain.com deliver store-/var/archive/incoming/domain_com forward user1@archive.domain.com
From: user1@domain.com deliver store-/var/archive/outgoing/domain_com forward user1@archive.domain.com
}

If you are really that concerned about it being the same "domain" the servers can "think" they are both part of the same domain but the server sending them the mail doesn't have to. Just edit the hosts file of the server that is splitting the mail so it thinks it is on a subdomain.

Problem solved.

If you need further help, please let me know.