[CoLoCo] Sendmail Relay / Forward

[David Overcash]

That's what Joey thought it was as well... but we don't want to forward - we
want to send the actual SMTP request to the external server.  The reason
being that the external server is a service to provide whitelisted emails,
etc. to ensure deliverability.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/07/2011 09:59 AM, David Overcash wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys - I'm having zero luck with google and IRC on this one...
>>
>> We're migrating to an external mail service that provides access via SMTP
>> - and rather than change our credentials (which were hardwired by a previous
>> programmer) in dozens of files, I would like to simply forward all requests
>> for that particular mail user to the external mail service using a
>> SMART_HOST.  Is this possible?
>>
>> Basically the goal is to do this within sendmail:
>> user1/pass1 @ localhost --> user2/pass2 @ external_host
>>
>
> This sounds like a standard .forward file to me, just set up the forward on
> the user directory on the mail server.
>
> If the emails are being generated locally and forwarded to the local email
> server, you can also set that user up as an alias in Postfix.  PostFix can
> forward to an external host.
>
> Or am I not understanding the question?
>
> Kevin
>
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