Re: [Exim] relay problem

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] relay problem
Tamas TEVESZ [exim-users] <31/05/01 12:00 +0200>:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Amit Frydman wrote:
>
> > My problem is as follow. i was asked to relay all the incoming messages
> > on my server to a new domain MX, but 5 mailboxes should stay on
> > my server. is there a configuration solution other than relay each user
> > ? im talking about around 200 users so relaying each user is not the
> > wanted
> > solution.
>
> set it as a local domain, for those 5 users do a director that
> delivers locally, for the rest do another that uses smartuser with
> new_address = ${original_local_part}@???


The other way around is much more efficient - the new box should be a
primary MX for the domain, and aliases for these 5 addresses should be
mapped pointing to the old box.

     -suresh


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