Migration question

Okay, I was following this page:

http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Split_Domain

to do a split domain for migration.

What I was doing (and tell me if this is wrong, and the correct way to do it if possible) was putting a .forward file in the user directories that were moving.

So we'll use the example.com domain used in the webpage example.

mail comes to user@example.com. The MX points to mail.example.com. So the mail gets delivered to user on mail.example.com. In their home directory they have a .forward that sends the mail to user@zimbra.example.com.

zimbra.example.com bounces with a relaying denied error.

How do I get that mail to user@example.com on the zimbra.example.com server?

okay, I figured out one thing.. in the .forward file has to have the same hostname as the zimbra server.

So if you have zimbra.example.com you can't have the forward file say user@newmail.example.com.

I changed the .forward file to user@zimbra.example.com and ran another test.

This is now the current error.

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
user@zimbra.example.com
(reason: 550 <user@zimbra.example.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table)
(expanded from: <user@example.com>)

postconf -e canonical_maps=hash:/opt/zimbra/conf/canonical
put "@zimbra.example.com @example.com" into the canonical file
postmap canonical
postfix stop
postfix start

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Originally Posted by bparris

postconf -e canonical_maps=hash:/opt/zimbra/conf/canonical
put "@zimbra.example.com @example.com" into the canonical file
postmap canonical
postfix stop
postfix start

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Well, that kind of worked.. But now if I send an email from the new zimbra server, it doesn't go to mail.example.com, it just delivers it locally on zimbra.example.com.

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Originally Posted by Sc00ter

Well, that kind of worked.. But now if I send an email from the new zimbra server, it doesn't go to mail.example.com, it just delivers it locally on zimbra.example.com.

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That's exactly what the split domain is supposed to do, for any account that exists in zimbra, deliver locally, otherwise forward to another server for delivery.

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Originally Posted by bparris

That's exactly what the split domain is supposed to do, for any account that exists in zimbra, deliver locally, otherwise forward to another server for delivery.

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There's no way to setup all the accounts on the zimbra server ahead of time and slowly migrate people over? I've already created the accounts.. I'd hate to have to remove them, than re-add them again.

You can on Zimbra just change the zimbraMailTransport attribute to send to the other server.

zmprov ma user@example.com zimbraMailTransport smtp:mail.example.com

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Originally Posted by Sc00ter

There's no way to setup all the accounts on the zimbra server ahead of time and slowly migrate people over? I've already created the accounts.. I'd hate to have to remove them, than re-add them again.

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Try setting the accounts inactive, see if that helps.