I see in the documentation that address rewriting should not be used
as a routing tool.
Our situation is like this:
3 exim servers as gateway for sun.ac.za which use a database to
determine where email should be delivered for @sun.ac.za adresses.
There are also some other domains for which we relay email.
Internally there are several exchange servers using
@exchange.sun.ac.za.
Previously there were several pmail servers with names like
firga.sun.ac.za etc.
Also previously the email domain for sun.ac.za was maties.sun.ac.za.
The present setup has quite a lot of rewrite rules like this:
*@maties.sun.ac.za $1@??? Eh
# For the expired pmail servers there are something like this for each
# of them:
postmaster@??? *
*@adm.sun.ac.za $1@??? Eh
# If postmaster@??? is never to be rewritten and not
# delivered to some other address like postmaster@???, the message
# will fail as adm.sun.ac.za does not exist anymore. So I think this
# configuration is wrong anyway.
And for the Exchange servers:
*@exchange.sun.ac.za $1@??? Eh
Now the question of the subject-line.
Is rewriting the addresses the correct way to ensure that emails to
addresses that existed in the past gets delivered to the correct
present address?
I just wonder whether, with the exception of the @exchange.sun.ac.za
addresses the others could not be handled through redirecting
like the aliases are used.
Regards
Johann
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