Hi guys

First off, I'm a n00b when it comes to Linux, so please bear with me!

I have a Debian 5 (Lenny) system set up and working, so no problems there at the moment.

I own numerous domain names, and want to be able to capture the email that is sent to them and forward it to an external email address. Initially, I don't really care what email address the mail is sent to as long as the MX record is pointing to my server, I just want it to accept it and fire it our to an external email address. It shouldn't store the mail or anything, simply relay it. It might be nice in the future to set up some rules for different addresses to go to different email addresses, but I'm not really concerned with that at the moment.

Sorry if this is a stupidly simple thing that I should be able to do without help, but Mr Google isn't helping me with this one.

Thanks in advance.

Bump!

Any help would be appreciated!

Take a look at
procmail

Is the final destination your Debian 5 (Lenny) system?

If so you could change the external MX records to deliver to its (static?) IP and use the alias file to map the other names to a single account.

@repo:
Procmail looks like an option, I'll have a dig through the documentation. It looks quite complex at a first glance!

@elfoozo
No the final destination is not the Debian system. I want the MX records to point to it, then the Debian system will take the mail and forward it out to another email address that is completely external to this. Effectively what I'm trying to do, is do a catch-all for numerous domains and send all this mail to an external email address.

Don't know if it's 'the best way' but you still should be able do what it sounds like you're trying to do with aliases.

Have the MX record for the domains point to your Debian system and configure Debian to accept mail for those other domains.

Edit Debian's /etc/aliases and use the user part [before @] of the email address.
remoteUser: localUser

And have a .forward in localUser's $home pointing to remoteUser@remoteSystem.com.

Thanks elfoozo. I'll give that a try, it sounds like a solution.

It's basically the same as if you were a backup server for a domain. You might find this section of the Postfix mail server documentation useful:

http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONF...ME.html#backup

Basically, you put all the domains into relay_domains and route the e-mail to the final server with transport_maps.

Robert