[Gllug] Simple Postfix setup

Andy McGarty andy at mac1systems.com
Tue Oct 11 11:42:11 UTC 2005


On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:30:51 +0100, Garry Heaton  
<garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone point me towards a simple Postfix setup which will allow 10
> varieties of <something>@mydomain.com to be relayed to individual mail
> accounts elsewhere? Examples:
>
> john at mydomain.com ...... to ...... john at aol.com
> alan at mydomain.com ...... to ...... alan.holt at yahoo.co.uk
> gil at mydomain.com ....... to ...... gillian at gmail.com
>
> I've bought 2 books on Postfix but neither seems to address this clearly.
> All sources I've read warn against accepting mail from outside the local
> network or DMZ, but unless I'm missing something obvious how else are  
> random
> users going to send email to anyone using the domain?
>
> Garry
>
>
Is the mydomain.com your "normal" postfix host?

If so then just add the following lines to the /etc/postfix/aliases file,  
then do newaliases and then postfix reload.

john:       john at aol.com
alan:		alan.holt at yahoo.co.uk


Andy
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