On 4/27/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, April 27, 2005 12:58, Declan Moriarty said:
> > Hi folks and prepare to suffer. Dec and email again :-(.
> >
> > I'm back in lfs-3.3 and have currently tried rejigging my mail setup
> > of Postfix, procmail, fetchmail, mutt, spamd/spamc to work from my new
> > isp. I cannot send, apparently because esat bt (a.k.a. iol.ie, a.k.a
> > bt ireland) are rejecting an (unknown) server. This is the kernel of
> > it.
> [...]
>
> Look at the transport and sender_canonical postfix man pages.
>
> I send mail whereever it is accepted, the others I relay via my ISP.
> Hopefully you can work out what is going on in the following.
>
> # From /etc/postfix/main.cf
> transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> relay_domains = $transport_maps
>
> $ cat /etc/postfix/transport
> aol.com smtp:relay.plus.net
> sancharnet.in smtp:relay.plus.net
> cox.net smtp:relay.plus.net
> bigfoot.com smtp:relay.plus.net
> freebsd.org smtp:relay.plus.net
> openldap.org smtp:relay.plus.net
> eth.net smtp:relay.plus.net
>
> $ cat /etc/postfix/sender_canonical
> @radiant.sequestor.lan @sequeira.plus.com
>
> I think you need to run postmap to create the db files used by postfix.
>
> My internal domain is sequestor.lan, the machine hostname is radiant,
> as you have probably guessed. My ISP is plus.net (the plus.com bit)
> imn sender_canonical.
I did remake the .db files after fiddling with them. Canonical is blank.
It _is_ a bit weird to write settings in one config file and then
dream up another file to change them into something else in the line
of
"Don't ever say this...say that"
"Ignore that setting because we didn't mean it"
Anyhow transport is fine. Canonical is blank, and I have never seen a
correct entry. Throw me a bone here please. What goes after
genius.chateau.dec:
--
All the Best
Declan.
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