postfix email forwarding

[clarencek]

hi
i want to forward emails from a postfix ( me_at_mydomaindotcom) to another email account that is independant of the forwarding account (eg. myself_at_ispdomaindotcom). how do i go about this?what are the configs and in which postfix file do i do them

[majortom]

hi clarencek

depends if you want to forward instead or as well as receiving locally.

if it's instead then edit /etc/aliases and add a line like:

me: myself_at_ispdomaindotcom

then run postalias /etc/aliases


if you want the email to be redirected and not received locally at all then:

edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and add a line:

virtual_alias_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/virtual

(check that you don't already have virtual_alias_maps set to something else)

then in /etc/postfix/virtual or wherever your existing setting is pointing put:

me_at_mydomaindotcom  myself_at_ispdomaindotcom

and sudo postfix reload

[xilus]

Do you also have to add this line to main.cf?

virtual_alias_domains = myfristdomain.com,myseconddomain.com