Since the use of LDAP can be somewhat challenging and also excessive in some situations, examples of maintaining recipient information are provided that use an approach involving simple textual lists of identities.
In this simpler environment, recipient details must be manually edited in the virtual identity files, but this permits a very transparent way of administering the system.
Example configuration files for Exim are distributed in conf/exim/simple:
File | Purpose |
010_exim4-config_people_outgoing | Defines recipients and outgoing mail routing |
020_exim4-config_people | |
020_exim4-config_resources | |
020_exim4-config_people_outgoing_recipients | |
virtual_people | Defines recipient identities belonging to known domains |
virtual_resources | |
virtual_domains | Defines recipient domains |
Where local SMTP routing is being performed and the recipients are local system users, the following files are also useful:
File | Purpose |
020_exim4-config_people_local_system | Defines routing for local recipients for delivery to mailboxes for local system users |
virtual_people_local_system | Defines recipients for delivery to mailboxes for local system users |
These files can be incorporated into the Exim configuration. On Debian systems, the numbered files can be copied into /etc/exim4/conf.d/router, whereas the virtual files can be copied into /etc/exim4.
Example configuration files for Postfix are distributed in conf/postfix/simple:
File | Purpose |
main.cf.example | Defines recipients and outgoing mail routing (for inclusion in main.cf) |
virtual_alias_maps | Defines recipients and outgoing mail routing |
virtual_alias_maps_people_outgoing |
Where local SMTP routing is being performed, the following file is also useful:
File | Purpose |
virtual_alias_maps_local_system | Defines recipients for delivery to mailboxes for local system users (installed into /etc/postfix/simple) |
The following files are common to LDAP and simple integration and are found in conf/postfix:
File | Purpose |
master.cf.items | Mail handler definitions for the imip-agent transports |
transport | Transport definitions for /etc/postfix/transport |
virtual | Outgoing message routing for /etc/postfix/virtual |
These files can be incorporated into the Postfix configuration. On Debian systems, master.cf.items can be merged into /etc/postfix/master.cf, whereas the other files can be merged into any existing files of the same names in /etc/postfix.