So i have sendmail running kind of and want to do the following. I was looking around for mail routing tutorials/howtos but all i was getting was bits and bobs so if anyone can clear this up for me I would be really happy or point me in the right direction. I have 2 servers and i want all the mail to come into 1st server then want it to forward a copy onto server 2 so that i can setup pop3 on server1 and imap on server2. revise: Server1 = pop3, receives all email Server2 = imap, receives a copy threw mail routing I know this is not the common practise but am mainly doing it to learn how mail routing works. Thanks
lo I'm not very familiar with sendmail (not at all in fact: I use postfix) but I know you can reroute mail to another machine using the percent hack (%) so I think on the first server you have a .forward file that reroute the mail to something like user%domain.tld@<IP of the second server> (maybe hostname instead of IP works). I have it working on postfix and communigate pro mail servers but I know this is considered to be a mess (and it really is) but may help. If I were you I would use a shared storage device with 2 mail servers connected on it. I Hope it will help
Well I'm sorry but I can't acces the conf files anymore... But It was something like (It's for Postfix not Sendmail OK?!): ########################## In /etc/postfix/main.cf ########################## ... allow_percent_hack = yes ... ########################## and in each home directory of your users (on the "master server") you have to put a .forward file wich look like this (let's say the user is toto, the domain titi.fr and the ip of your second server is 1.2.3.4): ########################## in $HOME/.forward ########################## toto%[email protected] ... ########################## If I remember well this work (should work with sendmail using a similar syntax if only sendmail accept % notation)! Check your mail.log
