How to change mailer daemon address
How to change the Mailer Daemon Address?
Problem
In this article, the steps for changing the Mailer Daemon address will be explained. The Mailer Daemon is responsible for sending bounce-back messages when an email fails to reach its destination. The Mailer Daemon typically uses the default system email address (e.g., postmaster@yourdomain.com) to send these notifications. To change the Mailer Daemon address in Zimbra, follow these steps:
Solution
The following steps needs to be performed from CLI to change the Mailer Daemon address.
Copy the file bounce.cf.default to bounce.cf and update it into the main.cf
su - zimbra cp /opt/zimbra/common/conf/bounce.cf.default /opt/zimbra/common/conf/bounce.cf postconf -e bounce_template_file="/opt/zimbra/common/conf/bounce.cf"
Now open the file /opt/zimbra/common/conf/bounce.cf and search MAILER-DAEMON and replace it with the required address.
Restart MTA service.
zmmtactl reload
| Submitted by: Nagesh Bhagwat |
