On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Torsten Curdt wrote:
> Rewriting at transport time is still what we'd like to have ;-) !!!
I have put it on the new wish list.
> But there are 2 other things to think about...
> 1. x@??? writes a (local) mail to y@???
> y@??? (y is in the file) and will be rewritten to y@???
> now we have mail from x@??? to y@???
> The Reply-To field (x@???) is ok.
> 2. x@??? writes a mail to z@???
> z@??? (z is not in the file) and will be NOT be rewritten
> now we have a mail from x@??? to z@??? (no local delivery)
> this mail will leave the intranet and the
> Reply-To field will become invalid(!) because there's
> NO domain named foo.de in the outside net!!!
>
> So I guess the only sollution might be taking ALL the providers domains
> as local domains and always rewrite *@foo.de to *@theguysprovider.com.
> So you would always have a valid Reply-To field and local mail
> will be delivered locally!
Yes, as far as I can see that is the only logical way of doing this kind
of thing if you are not going to have a separate gateway machine that
rewrites mail it is sending to the outside world.
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