Postfix Relay Based on Sender Recepient

Question

What is the best practice when one has to implement this sort of ruleset in Postfix?

• Email sent from local domain1.com, domain2.com to example.com, example1.com ought to be relayed to smtp.external.com.
• Email sent to everyone else @example.com and example1.com ought to be relayed locally.

I know there is a way to do a relay filtering recipient address using transport_maps, but I do not know how to filter depending on the sender address too.

Answer 1

There's a way (although not quite clean in my opinion), matching it with the header_checks parameter. For example:

header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/my_relays

Now in /etc/postfix/my_relays:

/^From:.*asender\@domain1\.com/  smtp1:[host1.example.com]
/^From:.*anothersender\@domain2\.com/  smtp2:[host2.example.com]

The smtp1 and smtp2 actions are only needed if you need to authenticate on the host1.example.com or host2.example.com servers by password, otherwise replacing them with the smtp keyword would be enough.

If you need to authenticate against those servers, you need to define what is smtp1 and smtp2 in your master.cf file:

smtp1    unix  -       -       -       -       10       smtp
    -o smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/smtp1.relay
smtp2    unix  -       -       -       -       10       smtp
    -o smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/smtp2.relay

As a last step, your smtp[12].relay files have to include the authentication parameters to connect to those hosts (I remark this is only needed if you need authentication).

[hostX.example.com]   userX:passwordX