________________________________ From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 9:34 AM To: mouss+nob...@netoyen.net Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: I thought I had a send-only Postfix server, but I see someone connected to it!
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, mouss <mo...@ml.netoyen.net> wrote: Dave a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Bjørn Ruberg <bj...@ruberg.no > <mailto:bj...@ruberg.no>> wrote: > > [snip] > > An even easier alternative is to let Postfix listen to localhost > OK, I did this too. (In addition to setting inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 > in main.cf <http://main.cf>.) This may cause problems because the IP will also be used for smtp_bind_address, which means smtp will use it as the source IP when talking to other mail servers. better not play with inet_interfaces and edit master.cf instead. Thanks for the tip. As far as I know, however, my Postfix only needs to talk to my gmail-provided smtp server. I just tested, and I can indeed still send email (which is relayed via gmail) even with the above change in place. I don't want anyone connecting to my Postfix server and I don't want it to send any email from any other machine and I only want it to relay email via gmail smtp. Given all that, is there any reason to undo the inet_interfaces change I made? =============================== Personally, I wonder why you're using Postfix at all if you're just sending and receiving mail via Gmail. Postfix is a full-blown MTA, so it seems like a lot of overkill for mail you could collect via IMAP/POP using the mail client of your preference.