Qmail and non-existent users

Hello,

I have configured a Qmail toaster mail server for my office. A virtual
domain
i.e. goldenswan.com is created for my LAN users. Each email account
looks
like something@goldenswan.com. I have created user1@goldenswan.com,
user2@goldenswan.com on this local email server. When I send a message
to user1@goldenswan.com or user2@goldenswan.com it is perfectly
delivered to the respective mail boxes. If I send
a message to non-existent user (lets say user3@goldenswan.com) on local
mail server, message is bounced back.

My internet domain is also goldenswan.com which is placed to some ISP.
I want
to deliver non-existent user's mail (mentioned above as
user3@goldenswan.com) should be delivered to ISP's goldenswan.com mail
server by resolving MX record of actual goldenswan.com.

Regards,
Pushpraj

pushpraj wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have configured a Qmail toaster mail server for my office. A virtual
> domain
> i.e. goldenswan.com is created for my LAN users. Each email account
> looks
> like something@goldenswan.com. I have created user1@goldenswan.com,
> user2@goldenswan.com on this local email server. When I send a message
> to user1@goldenswan.com or user2@goldenswan.com it is perfectly
> delivered to the respective mail boxes. If I send
> a message to non-existent user (lets say user3@goldenswan.com) on local
> mail server, message is bounced back.
>
> My internet domain is also goldenswan.com which is placed to some ISP.
> I want
> to deliver non-existent user's mail (mentioned above as
> user3@goldenswan.com) should be delivered to ISP's goldenswan.com mail
> server by resolving MX record of actual goldenswan.com.
>
> Regards,
> Pushpraj
>

You can not set this up in this way by default. One approach is to
setup a catch-all on your server that would forward these emails to your
user@yourisp.com (you can not use an email on your domain as the
destination for these as they will be routed through your server.)

Not really sure why you would want to do it this way.
1) you either accept and handle all email on the domain
2) or you accept and handle only email to users that have been defined
on your system.




AK

AK wrote:

> pushpraj wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have configured a Qmail toaster mail server for my office. A virtual
> > domain
> > i.e. goldenswan.com is created for my LAN users. Each email account
> > looks
> > like something@goldenswan.com. I have created user1@goldenswan.com,
> > user2@goldenswan.com on this local email server. When I send a message
> > to user1@goldenswan.com or user2@goldenswan.com it is perfectly
> > delivered to the respective mail boxes. If I send
> > a message to non-existent user (lets say user3@goldenswan.com) on local
> > mail server, message is bounced back.
> >
> > My internet domain is also goldenswan.com which is placed to some ISP.
> > I want
> > to deliver non-existent user's mail (mentioned above as
> > user3@goldenswan.com) should be delivered to ISP's goldenswan.com mail
> > server by resolving MX record of actual goldenswan.com.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pushpraj
> >
>
> You can not set this up in this way by default. One approach is to
> setup a catch-all on your server that would forward these emails to your
> user@yourisp.com (you can not use an email on your domain as the
> destination for these as they will be routed through your server.)
>
> Not really sure why you would want to do it this way.
> 1) you either accept and handle all email on the domain
> 2) or you accept and handle only email to users that have been defined
> on your system.
>
>
>
>
> AK


But there is option in sendmail and postfix for this.presently i am
using postfix and all mails to non-existent users are delivered to my
ISP mail server.I want to implement qmail server but due to this
non-existent users issue i am not able to do that.

Regards,
Pushpraj

pushpraj wrote:
> But there is option in sendmail and postfix for this.presently i am
> using postfix and all mails to non-existent users are delivered to my
> ISP mail server.I want to implement qmail server but due to this
> non-existent users issue i am not able to do that.

I'm not too sure what options you are referring to. Would you be able
to give the exact postfix option(s) you are using?

Regards,

Phil.

pushpraj wrote:

> AK wrote:
>
>
>>pushpraj wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have configured a Qmail toaster mail server for my office. A virtual
>>>domain
>>>i.e. goldenswan.com is created for my LAN users. Each email account
>>>looks
>>>like something@goldenswan.com. I have created user1@goldenswan.com,
>>>user2@goldenswan.com on this local email server. When I send a message
>>>to user1@goldenswan.com or user2@goldenswan.com it is perfectly
>>>delivered to the respective mail boxes. If I send
>>>a message to non-existent user (lets say user3@goldenswan.com) on local
>>>mail server, message is bounced back.
>>>
>>>My internet domain is also goldenswan.com which is placed to some ISP.
>>>I want
>>>to deliver non-existent user's mail (mentioned above as
>>>user3@goldenswan.com) should be delivered to ISP's goldenswan.com mail
>>>server by resolving MX record of actual goldenswan.com.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Pushpraj
>>>
>>
>>You can not set this up in this way by default. One approach is to
>>setup a catch-all on your server that would forward these emails to your
>>user@yourisp.com (you can not use an email on your domain as the
>>destination for these as they will be routed through your server.)
>>
>>Not really sure why you would want to do it this way.
>>1) you either accept and handle all email on the domain
>>2) or you accept and handle only email to users that have been defined
>>on your system.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>AK
>
>
>
> But there is option in sendmail and postfix for this.presently i am
> using postfix and all mails to non-existent users are delivered to my
> ISP mail server.I want to implement qmail server but due to this
> non-existent users issue i am not able to do that.
>
> Regards,
> Pushpraj
>

In qmail, define a catch-all account for the domain. Within the
..qmail-default enter the email address of the mailbox on your ISP's domain.

Is your domain currently served by your mail server(postfix) or by your ISP?

Ak