Design Check

Felix Ingram f.ingram at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 10:10:43 EEST 2021


On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 07:40, Bernardo Reino <reinob at bbmk.org> wrote:

>
> > [...]
>
> Further to the responses you have received already, I'd like to note that
> if you
> want to receive mail at {alias}@{user}.mydomain.com then, at the time of
> *sending* the e-mail there needs to be an MX record for user, as otherwise
> the
> sender won't be able to connect to your (postfix) server.
>
> That means that the users will have to exist *before* postfix receives the
> message, and thus clearly before dovecot receives it.. so you may have to
> reconsider your requirement of adding users of on-the-fly.
>

Excellent point. So we are also using a DNS server with this (CoreDNS with
some custom plugins).
This means we are able to handle the dynamic MX records (plus also allowing
us to expire domains if
we need to).

Cheers,

Felix
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