Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:38:11 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: relaying mail Message-ID: <20070731233811.73b6e7bc@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <62b856460707311103j5e648552kdeb1eba9ecff06e1@mail.gmail.com> References: <62b856460707311103j5e648552kdeb1eba9ecff06e1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:03:50 +0200 "Michael Grant" <mg-fbsd3@grant.org> wrote: > In one of my domains, I have the MX record for it set up to my server. > But for one of the users within that domain, their mail needs to be > shuffled off to a different server at google. But I can't just > forward it because it's like an MX host I'd need to forward it to. > And I can't alter the MX to point to google for the entire domain > because it's only one user within that domain, the other users will be > screwed in that case. > > For example, mydomain.com, let's say the mx for that comes to my box. > For joe@mydomain.com, I need to send his mail to ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM as > if it were the MX for mydomain.com. > > In the old days, one would simply forward email to > joe%mydomain.com@ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. That would cause mydomain.com's > sendmail to connect to ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM and shove down a message for > joe@mydomain.com. But that seems long deprecated because it didn't > seem to work. > > I am using sendmail and procmail. Can anyone think of some way I can > cause something like this to happen for just one user, ideally in a > .procmailrc file? > I'm not really sure what you asking here, ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM doesn't even have an mx record. If this person has a gmail account, just forward it to his gmail address, IIRC he has to configure the joe@mydomain.com address as one of his own addresses to prevent google seeing it as spam.
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