On 12/09/2010 09:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Everything from here... > -------------------- > to here > > is being ignored by postfix or will cause errors. These all need to be under > an smtpd_foo_restriction heading. You have most it duplicated once, if not > twice, below. > yeah, well, I had actually commented out that section & used the one below, but in copying it for the email, I left off that part..
> So here's my proposal for your new main.cf Paul. I'm sure others will chime > identifying any mistakes I may have made, or with other helpful suggestions. > I tried to remove all the default parameters you had duplicated, and changed > biff to no since you don't use the biff service on Lenny, nor Pine nor any > other text mode mail reader in an SSH shell, AFAIK. The idea here is to > wholesale replace your current main.cf file with the following: > > ####################################################################################################### > ok, put in place & reloaded.. mail.info now has this: Dec 9 10:32:06 paulandcilla postfix/master[17432]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling # ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 191128 Oct 30 11:52 /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd > Unfortunately you won't know if it's all going to work until you actually > switch your DNS MX pointer to your Lenny box's DNS A record. At that point > you should have an A of mail.pcartwright.com pointing to 208.65.91.107, and > an MX record pointing to mail.pcartwright.com. At that point you'll need to > replace these > > myhostname = paulandcilla.homelinux.org > mydestination = homelinux.org > myorigin = homelinux.org > > with > > myhostname = mail.pcartwright.com > mydestination = pcartwright.com > myorigin = pcartwright.com > > for your inbound mail to work correctly. Since you aren't even using Postfix > at all right now, you may as well go ahead and make these changes now. > so, at this point you are saying all I need to do to host my own email is add tzo.com ( or whatever DNS service..) to point to my static IP and I'm done? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
