Vacation use different SMTP server

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Mon Feb 3 13:42:28 EET 2020



Op 31-1-2020 om 15:04 schreef azurit at pobox.sk:
> Is Pigeonhole really using LDA for sending? My Dovecot is using LMTP, 
> not LDA.

That doesn't matter. These settings are used by both.

Regards,

Stephan.

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> Citát Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl>:
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>> Op 28-1-2020 om 19:20 schreef azurit at pobox.sk:
>>> Really no more info?
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>> You could do something with the sendmail_path or submission_host 
>> settings.
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>> Regards,
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>> Stephan.
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>>> Citát azurit at pobox.sk:
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>>>> Thanks for idea but it won't work for me as 'internal domains' can 
>>>> be anything, including gmail.com (and i don't know which of them 
>>>> are really internal/local, this is decided by sending SMTP 
>>>> everytime something is sent, based on MX records). Problem is that 
>>>> Dovecot/Sieve is using wrong SMTP server (one used for receiving 
>>>> e-mails which should NEVER be used for sending [and is never is, 
>>>> except sieve]).
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>>>> Citát "KOCIK Fabien (Acoss)" <fabien.kocik at acoss.fr>:
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>>>>> Hi,
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>>>>> I had the same problem and solved it at architectural design level.
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead of forcing Sieve to use a different SMTP server, I 
>>>>> declared some transports in the sending SMTP server to force it to 
>>>>> route internal domains directly to receiving SMTP server without 
>>>>> going to the Internet.
>>>>> So, internal mails remains on internal network and there is only 
>>>>> one SMTP server for all mail traffic.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I know that I don't answer directly to the original 
>>>>> question. But in the context, may be an idea ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards.
>>>>> Fabien
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>>>> De : dovecot <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org> De la part de 
>>>>> azurit at pobox.sk
>>>>> Envoyé : vendredi 24 janvier 2020 12:39
>>>>> À : Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
>>>>> Objet : Vacation use different SMTP server
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> in our setup, we have two SMTP servers:
>>>>>  - one for receiving messages (this one is using Dovecot's LMTP 
>>>>> for delivery)
>>>>>  - one for sending messages (this one is used by our users as 
>>>>> outgoing SMTP server)
>>>>>
>>>>> Only the first one has list of local domains, local e-mail 
>>>>> accoutns etc. so the second one will ALWAYS use MX records for 
>>>>> delivery - with this setup, we can allow to our users to add any 
>>>>> domain to their accounts (for example, if someone will add 
>>>>> gmail.com and create e-mail accounts on it, it's complete safe 
>>>>> because we will never deliver mail for gmail.com locally). The 
>>>>> only problem seems to be vacation messages (maybe other messages 
>>>>> send by sieve), as Dovecot is using the first SMTP server for 
>>>>> sending.
>>>>>
>>>>> My questions: Can i set different SMTP server for sieve messages? 
>>>>> How exactly is Dovecot/Sieve choosing which SMTP server will be used?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> azur
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