Antonio De Leon wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>> Chris Mathey wrote:
>>
>>> I am hoping any resident postfix gurus can help.
>>>
>>> I have a hosted virtual private server (fedora6) that I want to use
>>> as a SMTP relay(postfix).
>>>
>>> This VPS has minimal resources so it will do minimal processing
>>> incl. sanity checks and RBL's, possible spam\AV if I can pull it
>>> off. I also have root.
>>
>> Don't know how to do RBLs and AV from postfix, but it doesn't take
>> much resources to accept and relay mail. Unless you have a helluva
>> lot of it.
>>
>>>
>>> 1. This external relay will be the primary MX and relay all inbound
>>> mail for example.com to a postfix server on my internal network for
>>> processing and local delivery
>>>
>>
>> This is a fairly standard setup, if I'm reading you right. There's a
>> "smarthost" on the internet that accepts and relays mail for your
>> domain, example.com. Your LAN mail server goes and gets this mail,
>> usually via something like fetchmail, in a cron job if you like. The
>> cron job operates from the LAN mailserver and fetches the mail to
>> that server for distribution.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>>> 2. My local postfix server will send all non local email to the
>>> external relay for direct delivery.
>>
>> For this, you set up the default transport in postfix to smtp for the
>> host you're relaying to. In the transports file in your /etc/postfix
>> directory,
>>
>> alfa :
>> bravo :
>> charlie local:
>> * smtp:mail.delta.com
>>
>> The first two above are machine on the local network which will
>> accept mail and smtp connections with the relaying machine, charlie.
>> Charlie is the machine on which you're doing this. The last line
>> specifies that all other mail uses the smtp protocol to connect to
>> mail.delta.com to deliver mail elsewhere (your LAN mailserver).
>>
>> After writing this file, be sure to db-ify it by running something like:
>>
>> postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help, I've been searching all afternoon for the best
>>> approach.
>>
>> Sorry if I've missed the mark here. I'm not exactly sure what you're
>> asking for. From the sound of it, it sounds like what most people do.
>>
>> Paul
>>
> Hi, first post.
>
> I have the same setup with postfix, i have my gmail account forward
> my mail to my local internal server running postfix, also having to
> server my own domain nemonico.org with SASL SMTP authentication , and
> was the most straight forward setup i had, compared to sendmail, which
> took me a lot of time and the insecurity of having having it in the
> internet didnt seem fair so i took
> postfix but running under openbsd to keep the thing more tight. The
> spam/av setup for me dosent seem to apply to me as i dont
> have much traffic. Im posting my conf "main.cf" to see if it works for
> you and to see if anyone sees a misconf or anything not supposed to be
> there.
>
> ------ main.cf ------
> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
> command_directory = /usr/local/sbin
> daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix
> mail_owner = _postfix
> myhostname = kettle.nemonico.org
> mydomain = nemonico.org
> myorigin = nemonico.org
> inet_interfaces = $myhostname
> inet_protocols = all
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost,
> $mydomain, zooth.zapto.org,
> kettle.zapto.org, zooth.$mydomain, $myhostname.$mydomain
> ####
> # since we use SASL ( non-unix accounts ) we must add every user that
> # receives mail here. Then run postmap hash:/etc/postfix/email_accounts
> #local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/email_accounts
> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
> mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24
> relay_domains = $mydestination zooth.zapto.org
> relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients
> in_flow_delay = 1s
> canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
> #smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (1.4.2)
> smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP (1.4.2)
> #local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
> #default_destination_concurrency_limit = 20
> sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> newaliases_path = /usr/local/sbin/newaliases
> mailq_path = /usr/local/sbin/mailq
> setgid_group = _postdrop
> html_directory = /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/html
> manpage_directory = /usr/local/man
> readme_directory = /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/readme
> ------ main.cf ------
>
>
> Hope it helps....
>
>
>
>
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Funny, i thought i had SASL activated, i dont, back to the drawing
board :/, but it does the standard task of receiving the mail from gmail
and delivery of my local mail to the internet.
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