Hello,

I have configured qmail on my CentOS5.5 server. I am planning to divert all the mails sent to one domain to be diverted to another domain.

For example, I wish mails sent to user@my.external.domain.com to be seamlessly diverted to user@my.internal.domain.com. I tried in the smtproutes file. It did not work .

Also how can I have the reply to address different from the one I sent. Again, I wish, if I send emails from user@my.internal.domain.com I would like the replies through user@my.external.domain.com.

Please let me know if the above is not clear.

Thanks

Hi,
How didn't it work? Could you post some logs?

You should configure a "reply-to" address in your client program.

Regards

Hi Bathory,

Thanks for your response.

Where can I find the logs for this?

To clarify my.internal.domain.com is a virtual domain in my smtp server. my.external.domain.com is something we have hosted in an external server. So, should it still work?

The idea is to divert all the outgoing mails addressed to people in-house to the internal mail server. So, am I doing the right thing here?

Thanks

Hi,

The logs are under /var/log/qmail. The logfile is called current and there are a couple of them under the various subdirectories (this depends on the way you've installed qmail)

Huh, don't get what exactly you want to do.
If you want mail for my.internal.domain.com delivered locally to my.external.domain.com, you need to use setup the usual .qmail files for the virtual domain

Hi Bathory,

Thanks for that link. It clarifies things. But the virtual domain applies to all the incoming mails.

I shall try to explain that better here. We have an email system hosted on a third party server, say external.com. I have just created this internal email system, say internal.com, which is not available outside the intranet. What I am doing here is when I send an email to my colleague who is also in the intranet, it should not go through the internet. For example if an email from myself@internal.com is sent to mycolleague@externel.com, mycolleague@external.com should automatically be converted to mycolleague@internal.com and delivered to the virtual domain in our local email server.

I already have found a way to perform this - by creating an alias in my smtp server. ie creating external.com as an alias for internal.com. This way, anything that is sent to external.com through the local smtp server will automatically be diverted to internal.com.

So it's working now.
You could do the same by adding external.com in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts, so mail for external.com would be delivered locally.

Regards

My understanding of rcpthosts is to restrict the domains to send emails through the concerned smtp server. So if I have listed internal.com in the rcpthosts only people from internal.com can send emails through that smtp server. Is that (I mean my understanding) not correct?

No, it's a list of domains that qmail accepts mail for. So if external.com is listed there, the mail will be delivered locally.
See this about the various config files.

Regards

Yes your are correct. That's my misunderstanding. But in this particular case, if I include external.com, but it does not exist in the server, will it still be delivered?

In actual fact I have only one (virtual)domain in my mail server - with internal.com. As I have mentioned in one of the previous posts, the external.com is living outside our network. I guess, I should create an internal domain called 'external.com' and then add it to the rcpthosts for the server to deliver it locally. Am I correct?

Thanks

Hi,

You said in post #5 above, that you found a way to do your job. So there is no need to mess further with qmail config files.

Regards

Hi bathory,

You are right. It is not advisable to mess up with the live system. But I am just trying to understand the concept to have a better visibility of the system.

Anyway, I mark this thread as solved for now and open a new thread if I have questions in this regard.

Thanks for your participation in this thread.