Postfix Virtual Alias Domains & Kolab

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 11:29:38 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Albrecht Dreß
<albrecht.dress at lios-tech.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about setting up multiple virtual alias domains in
> postfix in conjunction with kolab.


I wrote this wiki

https://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Managing_Domain_aliases

hope this help

>
> The task is to receive mails from the Internet (and probably also
> internally) not only for my-default-domain.com, but also for
> my-second-domain.com, my-third-domanin.com, etc.  Each and every user
> (including the administrative accounts like www, webmaster, etc. etc.)
> shall receive the messages for all domains, and they shall all be
> submitted into the same inboxes.
>
> In postfix, I have (on an other box) in main.cf
>
> <snip>
> mydomain = my-default-domain.com
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
> virtual_alias_domains = my-second-domain.com my-third-domanin.com
> virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> </snip>
>
> The file /etc/postfix/virtual contains (among other stuff, like mapping
> e.g. root to a real user)
>
> <snip>
> @my-second-domain.com   @my-default-domain.com
> @my-third-domain.com    @my-default-domain.com
> </snip>
>
> Is there any support within Kolab for such a scenario?  I understand
> that I could add all secondary domains, and then give each and every
> user an extra alias for the extra addresses, but that sounds like
> pulling a whale on the beach for many accounts.  So IMO the above
> approach would be smarter.
>
> What would be the right way to proceed?  Can I simply add the
> virtual_alias_domains statement and an extra virtual_maps entry to
> main.cf.template (and of course add the extra virtual file)?  Or would
> that break anything?
>
> Oh, and, btw, why doesn't the default main.cf on Kolab contain
> '$myhostname, localhost.$mydomain' as mydestination?
>
> Thanks, Albrecht.
>
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