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  • From: Carsten Aulbert <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa on different host than MTA?
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:33:02 +0200

Hi again

Serge Aumont wrote:
> Carsten Aulbert a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have probably a stupid question but I'm currently set up new systems
>> and now the main mailserver is on a a different host than Sympa should
>> be and my question now, is that possible?
>>
> Yes indeed.
>> I.e. what do I need to do?
>>
>> * Obviously Sympa-host needs to be able to send email (possibly via
>> smarthost)
>> * Is it possible to accept the emails on the mail-hub (postfix) and
>> simply forward the email then to Sympa-Host where a tiny MTA runs?
>>
> Yes that a good configuration. You probably need to customize the way
> alias are generated, see http://www.sympa.org/manual/mail-aliases . Be
> aware : your MX must reject message for unkown list in order to prevent
> backscatting (unusefull delivery report). This suppose your MX to known
> the list of valid lists.

Yes, I've set things up that way, although it was a bit painful in the
beginning. But after all I managed to set it up that way.

Cheers

Carsten



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