Re: [cobalt-users] mails of 2 domains -> to 1 domain

["Jeffery L. JT Vogt" <lfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>** But if I want to send a mail to info@xxxxxxxxxxxx (MX->www.icreatix.de, 62.40.13.24 where the alias is set up) the following error message comes back from my free e-mail **provider which I want to send the mail through.
>
>62.40.13.24 does not like recipient.
>Remote host said: 550 <info@xxxxxxxxxxxx>... Relaying denied.  Please check your mail first.
>Giving up on 62.40.13.24.
>
>What could cause this message?

Ben,

Sorry if this response is a bit "muzzy", but I'm dealing still with
these Cobalt upgrade issues that have effective shut down my systems (as
explained in email to this list last night) with no end in sight.

At any rate, the problem is not so much that "62.40.13.24 does not like
recipient" but that they are not allowing you to relay through them.

Since you can't add yourself to their relay table, here's what I'd do:

Set up the MX for domain1 to go to domain2.  Yes, you read that right.

Then, log in on your box as root, and do the following:

1) cd /etc
2) vi virtusertable
3) At the VERY bottom, add the following (with the right domain, of
   course):

@domain2.com       someaddress@xxxxxxxxxxx

Where "someaddress" is the address you want it to go to.

4) /usr/bin/makemap hash /etc/virtusertable.db < /etc/virtusertable

What you have done is to make all email for domain1 go to domain2.  You
have then set *anything* going to domain2 to go to a single mailbox at
62.40.13.24.  If you don't want *all* mail being routed to a single
mailbox, then set up separate entries in virtusertable:

addr1@xxxxxxxxxxx	addr1@xxxxxxxxxxx
addr2@xxxxxxxxxxx	addr2@xxxxxxxxxxx
(and so on)

Note that the space between the entry "@domain2.com" and the address is
NOT a or even many spaces, but a TAB.

If you're at all uncomfortable with hacking around in the virtual user
table, as above, then do this as step 2a:

mkdir /root/mybackups
cp virtusertale* /root/mybackups

Alternatively, you could, instead of setting "up the MX for domain1 to go 
to domain2" just put entries for *both* domain1 and domain2 in your
virtusertable file.

-Arf, JT
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