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Re: Mail server for linux
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, ps -fax wrote:
>> and envelope rewriting to accomodate
>> masquerading small networks that migrate to ISPs (such as dialup hosts) ?
>
>ha? why would you need to rewrite the envelope? Qmail will use whatever
>you set your MUA to send over SMTP (netscape, pine...) or you can set
>the environment (for every user seperately or in /etc/profile) to the
>right domain when injecting mail on the commandline.
See, I did not know that (though I have the qmail source here).
The usual situation I have is:
- A small network is formed (off the internet). It takes a name that is
not registered and IPs from the non-network ranges.
- People who send email have user@host at these hosts. They need to appear
as user2@their_isp in any SMTP transaction (outgoing). Some need to send
the mail to a specific ISP mail forwarder.
- Incoming mail comes from several accounts to a smaller number of users.
These addresses need to be aliased properly (user2@some_isp -> user@here)
- It is nice if the hack that passes these through the local MTA is made
to disappear from the header, not last, to remove the appetite for hacking
specified applications which announce themselves, later.
So I need different rewriting for outgoing envelopes and headers, on a
per-user basis, and the same thing for incoming enverlopes and headers.
VMailer does all this very easily. Sendmail must be wrestled with to do
it. I don't know about qmail. That was the question, not why I need all
this.
Vmailer is very very easy to set up for such things. It still has some
small bugs (speed-related) but it works ok.
Peter
PS: What exactly made you use 'ps -fax' as a handle ? Are you testing some
MTAs funky address parser ? <g>