search the postfix miling list archives,, I saw a ton of this sort of question and answers when I was on it. (it a high volume list) you can look for it on postfix.org
you should also look into amavisd while you are there, there is a proodut called amavis-new and it is tied in to spamassasin as well, so you get spam protection and antivirus for all mail going though in one hit.. very cool. rgds Frank. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Johnson Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix for dummies? Derek, Thanks for the reply. I currently have my own mail server (Exchange) for my domain and am simply looking to set up postfix as an SMTP gateway so that I can have it filter incoming mail for viruses and spam. On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:47 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 12:05 am, David Johnson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm sure this subject has been covered a thousand times (maybe I'm just > > looking in the wrong places), but I can't find an answer anywhere. > > > > I'm looking for postfix configuration for dummies. I'm currently setting > > up an LM8.2 machine to rnu postfix along with anomy and spamassassin as > > an SMTP gateway for my MS Exchange box and I'm having trouble with the > > configuration. > > > > Specifically, I'm having trouble getting it to forward the mail to my > > Exchange box. I found the setting in MAIN.CF that allows postfix to > > forward all messages that it does not have a mailbox for and, according > > to the INFO log file, the forwarding is happening, but the message never > > shows up in Exchange. > > > > I'm not sure what further specific info someone might need to help me > > troubleshoot this, but the breakdown appears to be happening somewhere > > between postfix and exchange, I just don't know of a way to find out what > > is going on short of a sniffer... > > > > I would appreciate any help anyone can offer! > > Postfix takes mail and forwards it onwards. Any mail destinesd for a local > mailbox will be put into a mailbox in /var/mail/user_name. To get it into > an outlook mail client you are going to need an imap or pop3 sevice running > on your machine. Install the imap rpm and you can start up imap or ipop3 > services via mandrake control centre to pass the mail onto your users. > > To get the mail from your ISP mail servers fetchmail is good. fetchmailconf > is a a good way to configure fetchmail. Webmin is a good way to configure > postfix > > > There is a good guide on www.mandrakeuser.org > derek
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