I am trying to set up something called a mail2news gateway with postfix. I almost know what to do but just need a little push to finish off the mail2news setup. In the details below it tells how it is done: >If the gateway is going to provide functionality for munging From addresses, the >following aliases must be added to the mail aliases file. >mail2news_nospam: mail2news >mail2news_munge: mail2news So for example say my user name is hotchilli and mail is [email protected] So in the mail aliases file I just add the lines: mail2news_nospam: hotchilli? mail2news_munge: hotchilli? and which aliases file/ /etc/aliases or /etc/aliases.db? so pepole can send mail via [email protected] and [email protected] hotchilli
As far as I understand, you must put Code: mail2news_nospam: mail2news mail2news_munge: mail2news (without replacing anything!) into /etc/aliases and then run Code: newaliases and restart Postfix.
postfix extensions In my first post of the thread i said I>f the gateway is going to provide functionality for munging From addresses, the >following aliases must be added to the mail aliases file. what I forgot to mention was another2 lines in the instructions which reads: >A gateway must intercept email messages destined for a special user and redirect >them to the mail2news programs. This is done using Postfix and Procmail. In the >following sections, the USER account is assumed to be mail2news. so with this information can i assume that the line into /etc/aliases would be mail2news_nospam: hotchilli? mail2news_munge: hotchilli? (assuming the user name to be hotchilli) hotchilli
