mail forwarding problem

[zephod at cfl.rr.com]

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. 

I'm going to try Les Mikesell's suggestion first. It looks like the
simplest thing to do. 

If that works, I might try Bob Chiodini's FAQ link.

Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
Date: Friday, May 25, 2007 2:12 pm
Subject: Re: mail forwarding problem
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>

> On Friday 25 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 25 May 2007, zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > > So do I need to look at configuring sendmail? From what I've read on
> > > this list, that's not the easiest thing to do.
> >
> > Postfix.sendmail is easier to configure, though I've never done it
for use
> > with a company network.  Of course that means installing and configuring
> > postfix, but the config files are helpfully commented.
> >
> > Basically you have to write a transport map file that tells it what
to do
> > with local traffic and what to do with external messages.  On a home
LAN it
> > would look something like
> >
> Correction (must keep fingers un-twisted :-) )
> 
> lydgate.lan     smtp:[borg.lydgate.lan]
> .lydgate.lan    smtp:[borg.lydgate.lan]
> *       smtp:[smtp.mailbox.co.uk]
> >
> > That is, send local mail to the smtp server on the server box.  Send
> > everything else to my ISP's smtp server.
> >
> > When you've discovered the names you need to put in there, you 
> run 'postmap
> > transport', and you're away.
> >
> > Finally you have to tell the system to use postfix.sendmail instead of
> > sendmail.  There's a small utility that helps here.  I can't remember
> > exactly, but it's something like mail-agent-switcher.  I'm sure someone
> > will give you the correct name.
> >
> > Anne