[haiku-sysadmin] Re: Email forwarding
- From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:36:00 +0100
Hi,
2009/11/20 Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> On 2009-11-20 at 14:13:02 [+0100], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> There are several forwarded emailaddresses configured on Webfaction.
>>
>> Some of them might be deleted, others of them might still be in use.
>> Before going to a lot of trouble trying to find alternatives for those
>> important or still in use, I would first like to know how difficult it
>> would be to set up email forwarding for the main @haiku-os.org domain.
>> Could we set that up at GoDaddy or do we have to do that ourselves?
>
> To my knowledge, it isn't possible to do e-mail forwarding by DNS alone.
> Incidentally, I have been working on a proper e-mail setup during the last
> two days: baron.haiku-os.org has been setup as the MX (mail exchanger) for
> the haiku-os.net domain and handles outbound mail for haiku-os.net and .org
> as well as inbound mail for haiku-os.net.
> All the VMs relay their outgoing mail (e.g. the stuff trac sends out as
> trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx) via baron, so there's only one mail server listening to
> the outside world.
Nice work!
> As a result, baron now receives all the bounces caused by the mails sent out
> by trac. Currently, the resulting mails to the postmaster are being forwarded
> to me, but we should either add more admins to the loop, or forward the
> bounces to this list instead. Having them forwarded to the list would have
> the advantage that we could communicate over the list who's dealing with
> them. Any other ideas?
Send them to the list for now, if there are too many we can consider
another way of dealing with them.
> On the positive side, the new mail setup seems to have improved our trust
> level with some ISPs, such that their SMTP servers are now happy to talk to
> ours (see ticket 5004).
>
> For the topic at hand, this means that we can now easily add mail forwards
> ('virtual aliases' in postfix-speak). So we just need to make up our mind
> which addresses should exist and to which person(s) each of these addresses
> should be forwarded to.
Okay, I am already working behind the scenes with the people that own
the mail boxes. Added to that there is a whole list of people who have
aliases (plus a few generic ones as well).
I am a bit reluctant to send this list in full to this mailing list
(for privacy reasons), so I will send that list privately to the
admins first. I guess (again for legacy reasons) there are several
people who have an alias ready. I suggest we consider making it an
official policy of giving developers an email alias, or alternatively
ask all the owners of the existing aliases whether they would like to
keep it. Chances are that they are not even using it.
Also, Oliver, could you make an admin-note on how to add, modify and
remove an email alias?
> When that is done and all the virtual aliases have been set up, we could add
> baron.haiku-os.org as the MX record for haiku-os.org, too, such that we no
> longer rely on webfaction to handle our mail.
Okay, I will keep you posted on when all the mailboxes have been taken care off.
Kind regards,
Niels
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