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Michel

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-07-31

Posts: 286

setting up postfix

Heya,

I'm trying to setup postfix. I'm inside a network and would like to let postfix forward all mails to the networks smtp-server. It only needs to handle mails coming from the machine it's running on.

I have been trying to get this running with relay_host=network's mail server (I also tried with relay_host=network's name, but that didn't give me the smtp-server Ithink) and relay_domains=localhost, but that gives me "network's mail sever not known" ... I tried with default_transport=network's mail server, but I'm not yet sure if that works ...

so, could anyone help me with configuring postfix, so it passes all emails to the network's smtp-server?

thanks,

Michel

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: setting up postfix

Heya,

I'm trying to setup postfix. I'm inside a network and would like to let postfix forward all mails to the networks smtp-server. It only needs to handle mails coming from the machine it's running on.

I have been trying to get this running with relay_host=network's mail server (I also tried with relay_host=network's name, but that didn't give me the smtp-server Ithink) and relay_domains=localhost, but that gives me "network's mail sever not known" ... I tried with default_transport=network's mail server, but I'm not yet sure if that works ...

so, could anyone help me with configuring postfix, so it passes all emails to the network's smtp-server?

thanks,

Michel

While it should be possible with postfix, I wonder why are you wanna break
a butterfly on wheel(we say shoot at sparrows with cannons actually).
There are quite a couple of capable smtp forwarder out there, eg.

pacman -S msmtp

will probably help. (If I got your problem right)

-neri

Michel

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-07-31

Posts: 286

Re: setting up postfix

HEya,

thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure yet of it. I need it so that the output of cron-jobs is mailed and also the output of the bacula-backup-system. I am not sure yet how bacula sends mails. I know you can specify another mail-command by using pipes (for cron-jobs), but it would be nicer if I could use the sendmail(/postfix)-executable.

thanks,

Michel

Michel

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-07-31

Posts: 286

Re: setting up postfix

Heya,

thanks for the help. I solved it, by specifying the ip-address of the network's mail-server instead of it's domain name(?).

thanks,

Michel

neri

Forum Fellow

From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: setting up postfix

I solved it, by specifying the ip-address of the network's mail-server instead of it's domain name(?).

I'm not quite sure. but for domainbased relyaing it might be that postfix
needs a valid mx entry at least (/etc/hosts doesn't work here)

-neri

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Re: setting up postfix

relayhost=[192.168.0.1]

put the ip in brackets. putting it in brackets turns off mx lookups.

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