At 12:23 2005-06-27 -0500, Jerry K wrote:
I take care of a unix mail server that is a pass thru mail server,
The term is "mail gateway".
On the unix box, I am running sendmail 8.13.x with an access list
(/etc/mail/access.*). There are about 40 users and forwarding (to the ms
box) is currently accomplished using the /etc/mail/aliases file. There are
currently no accounts on the unix system other than for administrative purposes
Not topical to this list, but you should look into setting up LDAP or
somesuch so that the gateway host knows what valid addresses are on the
backend, without you having to manually maintain two separate lists (one at
the gateway, and one at the backend mailhost).
Of course, a lot of arguments could be made for ditching the Exchange setup
entirely...
I am a new procmail user and was interested in using procmail for
additional mail filtering. I did do some RTFM'ing and I do know from the
FAQ that procmail is not an MTA.
If you're forwarding the messages, you're going to have to set up aliases
to invoke procmail as a filter and then have procmail do the forward:
[/etc/aliases]
someuser: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -m /path/to/procmailrc
realbackendaddr(_at_)domain(_dot_)tld"
the procmailrc does it's thing, and any mail that is ultimatley to be
forwarded is subjected to a final recipe like so:
:0
! $1
(I do something slightly more complex in my Senechal setup, but at the core
and minus some fluff, this is what it is)
My first thought was to create user accounts on my unix system, and call
procmail from a .forward file in the users home directory.
If all the filtering is to be the same, this is unnecessary.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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