I consider myself a newbie, but I did (finally) manage to get a mail server installed using postfix in a situation somewhat similar to yours. (I have a private LAN without a registered domain name and need to relay my mail to my ISP for (SMTP) delivery.)
Try looking at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailInterimUpdate#Notes in the paragraph on postfix -- it lists the three or four parameters I had to change (on Mandrake 7.2) to get a mail server working. (I have a lot more information on a postfix based email server on WikiLearn, but a lot of it is very disorganized at this point -- I am trying to straighten it out. The following pages may be somewhat helpful as well: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailServerSketches * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailOverviewSketch Randy Kramer On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:16 pm, Dale Morris wrote: > I need to configure Postfix so I can use mutt and slrn. Postfix seems > pretty simple but I'm a little gunshy because the only other time I > configured it, it worked fine but I ended having my root mail go > directly to the administrator at mail provider. He got pretty upset > after a while.. > > Here is my scenario: > machine name: lymond.lvcm.com > email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > user directory: /home/dlm > smtp forwarding address: smtp.lvcm.com (I would prefer to send mail > directly from my machine and not use lvcm.com) > > > According to the way I understand the documentation, all I have to do > is edit my /etc/postfix/alias file and change the file to reflect: > > root: postfix (change to) root: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > then I need to postalias command to rehash the alias database.. Is > that all or have I missed something? > > thanks > dale
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