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i have a debian vps with webmin,

The TLD for the server has its MX pointing to a different server,

I would like it so any mail generated locally, say by the shopping cart would be relayed/forwarded onto the third party mail server,

While a few chosen address's say those with user accounts/mail boxes like root and postmaster would have their mail delivered locally.

Is this possible, how ?

thanks, Hayden.

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  • You want SOME email addresses in the TLD to be delivered locally, do not you? Is the TLD on the list of local email doamins? echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt
    – AnFi
    Jul 8, 2013 at 13:44

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For local delivery add an alias in /etc/aliases to the user-id prefixed with real-, for example:

john:   real-john

root should already be aliased to a local user-id. Configure it as above or alias it to a different user.

For delivery to a relay server configure your mail server to use a smarthost, and specify the desired server as the smarthost.

Typically, Debian will use exim4 or postfix rather than sendmail. exim4 should already be configured for the above to work. I believe postfix is also configured similarly. The real- prefix is used internally to deliver some failure notices, and is available for other uses, such as yours.

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