[SOLVED] Deliver all mails to external MTA

[maxxer]

Hi.

I need to do a "weird" thing: for some (or eventually all) local recipients, I need to deliver using an external MTA.

So, say my server handles @example.com, and I use relay.myisp.com as external MTA, I need that ALL mails go thru relay.myisp.com, even if I'm sending to user1@example.com which is handled locally by zimbra.

Mails will then get back (via fetchmail), and delivered as usual.

So, the rule would be: mails generated locally for local accounts, gets outside anyway.

How do I accomplish this?
thanks

[vavai]

Originally Posted by maxxer

Hi.

I need to do a "weird" thing: for some (or eventually all) local recipients, I need to deliver using an external MTA.

So, say my server handles @example.com, and I use relay.myisp.com as external MTA, I need that ALL mails go thru relay.myisp.com, even if I'm sending to user1@example.com which is handled locally by zimbra.

Mails will then get back (via fetchmail), and delivered as usual.

So, the rule would be: mails generated locally for local accounts, gets outside anyway.

How do I accomplish this?
thanks

How about this :

$ zmprov md example.com zimbraMailCatchAllAddress @example.com
$ zmprov md example.com zimbraMailCatchAllForwardingAddress @example.com
$ zmprov md example.com zimbraMailTransport smtp:relay.myisp.com

[maxxer]

Originally Posted by vavai

How about this :

$ zmprov md example.com zimbraMailCatchAllAddress @example.com
$ zmprov md example.com zimbraMailCatchAllForwardingAddress @example.com
$ zmprov md example.com zimbraMailTransport smtp:relay.myisp.com

I found this code in Split Domain document as well, but it doesn't work, because local users are still delivered using local zimbra. I need those messages to go outside.

[y@w]

Well.. each user has a zimbraMailTransport explicitly set, so it will override whatever settings you put for the domain. You can wipe out that setting or set it explicitly for each user which should work.

I'm not sure how you're going to get Zimbra to retrieve those messages, though.. Might I suggest that you just set the SMTP server that the web client uses to this external SMTP server and deliver them back to Zimbra? Then, of course, you would block access to Postfix on your Zimbra server for everyone except that external mail server. Then, all logs, messages, etc still pass through that server. Not sure if that helps your situation or not, but I thought I would throw that out there.

[LMStone]

Originally Posted by maxxer

Hi.

I need to do a "weird" thing: for some (or eventually all) local recipients, I need to deliver using an external MTA.

So, say my server handles @example.com, and I use relay.myisp.com as external MTA, I need that ALL mails go thru relay.myisp.com, even if I'm sending to user1@example.com which is handled locally by zimbra.

Mails will then get back (via fetchmail), and delivered as usual.

So, the rule would be: mails generated locally for local accounts, gets outside anyway.

How do I accomplish this?
thanks

You don't why you want to do this; presumably the other MTA offers a feature Zimbra's Postfix does not?

Possibly you will want to hack Zimbra's Postfix to use a milter:
Postfix before-queue Milter support

Not sure how that will survive Zimbra version upgrades...

Hope that helps,
Mark

[uxbod]

As y@w has already said you can set zimbraMailTransport. Default is for it to be set to

zimbraMailTransport: lmtp:<zcs_server_fqdn>:7025

And you can change that with

su - zimbra
zmprov ma user@domain.com zimbraMailTransport:"relay.myisp.com:25"

When you pull down the mail via fetchmail ensure that it is being injected on port 7025 otherwise you will end up with a mail loop.

[maxxer]

it worked, thanks.

in fetchmail I had to add

smtphost localhost/7025 lmtp

to every user entry, and then

zmprov ma myaccount@mydomain.it zimbraMailTransport smtp:smtp.myisp.it:25

for every user.

on a side note, this bypasses zimbra as/av for the selected users

[uxbod]

Yes, as AS/AV is only applied via Amavis on port 25.