http://imil.net/blog/tags/mail/ Recent content in Mail on iMil.net Hugo en-us Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:52:26 +0100 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2021/postfix-to-gmail-catchall/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:52:26 +0100 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2021/postfix-to-gmail-catchall/ <p>The other day, my wife asked me if I could just redirect all mails going to her own domain to her <em>GMail</em> account. &ldquo;Easy task&rdquo;, foolish past-me thought, not knowing the standards you have to meet to actually forward a mail from <em>somwhere</em> to <em>GMail</em>&hellip;</p> <p>I naively searched for a simple bouncing method and <code>postfix</code>&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html">virtual</a> tables seemed perfectly fit for the task (from <code>man virtual</code>):</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-man" data-lang="man"><span style="display:flex;"><span>The main applications of virtual aliasing are: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> o To redirect mail for one address to one or more addresses. </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> o To implement virtual alias domains where all addresses are </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> aliased to addresses in other domains. </span></span></code></pre></div><p>So here we go and:</p>