Today I ran into the case, that I have my ubuntu server with postfix running as MTA. Since there is no IMAP server or something like this installed, I use this server only for relaying/proxying the mails to my gmail account.
Setup was straight forward (choose "Internet Site" and enter the ip of the server when it asks for mynetworks):
# apt-get install postfix
The /etc/aliases looks like this:
root: [email protected]
if I want to send all mails from root to the mail address [email protected].
This all went well, as long as there was only one domain running on the server. Let's say the first domain was
example.org and the second one is example.net.
That's why I had to reconfigure the postfix program:
# dpkg-reconfigure postfix
When it asked for the local servers (mynetworks in main.cf) I added example.net at the end.
Now I want that [email protected] and [email protected] mails, will be received by [email protected].
Additionally everything to [email protected] will be send to [email protected].
But to make everything working (like Jem explained), I had to modify /etc/aliases and create + modify the /etc/postfix/virtual file.
First of all we need some virtual mapping for the email accounts to local aliases in /etc/postfix/virtual (create it if it does not exist, yet):
example.net this-text-is-not-important
[email protected] bob-dracoblue-net
[email protected] bob-dracoblue-net
[email protected] alice-dracoblue-net
To enable virtual aliases add/change the line to /etc/postfix/main.cf:
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
Update the postfix table map for the virtual file with:
# postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
Then the local aliases need to be mapped to real email addresses (append to /etc/aliases:
alice-dracoblue-net: [email protected]
bob-dracoblue-net: [email protected]
To reload the aliases run:
# newaliases
Eventually you have to run:
# postfix reload
to finalize the setup.
Check /var/log/system.log with:
# tail -f /var/log/system.log
and try to send/receive mails! Have fun!
