{"id":6,"date":"2006-11-04T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/04\/postfix\/"},"modified":"2006-11-04T09:07:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T17:07:53","slug":"postfix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/postfix\/","title":{"rendered":"Postfix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My rimu host hosts a number of domains, including <a href=\"http:\/\/oroup.com\">oroup.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/openrelay.com\">openrelay.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cadabraco.com\">cadabraco.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugmaps.com\">drugmaps.com<\/a>. I want to be able to send and receive email to those domains, but (at least for now) I don&#8217;t really want to set up dovecot locally and actually deal with mail. So the ideal thing is just to forward your mail to another email address. Postfix is a little daunting at first, but the key <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postfix.org\/VIRTUAL_README.html#forwarding\">instructions<\/a> turn out to be quite simple.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>1 \/etc\/postfix\/main.cf:\n2     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postfix.org\/postconf.5.html#virtual_alias_domains\">virtual_alias_domains<\/a> = example.com ...other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postfix.org\/VIRTUAL_README.html#canonical\">hosted domains<\/a>...\n3     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postfix.org\/postconf.5.html#virtual_alias_maps\">virtual_alias_maps<\/a> = hash:\/etc\/postfix\/virtual\n4\n5 \/etc\/postfix\/virtual:\n6     postmaster@example.com postmaster\n7     joe@example.com        joe@somewhere\n8     jane@example.com       jane@somewhere-else\n9     # Uncomment entry below to implement a catch-all address\n10     # @example.com         jim@yet-another-site\n11     ...virtual aliases for more domains...<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Presto, instant email!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My rimu host hosts a number of domains, including oroup.com, openrelay.com, cadabraco.com and drugmaps.com. I want to be able to send and receive email to those domains, but (at least for now) I don&#8217;t really want to set up dovecot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}