On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 09:24:01PM +0100, Michael Maymann wrote:
> thanks for your kind reply...:-) !
> yes this is exactly the case... and my internal local-mailers consist on
> standard RHEL5+6 servers and NetApp's.
> Our ISP is restricting mail from only 1 of our sites, so we need to relay
> all our internal mail globally through this site.
>
> We can't prevent non-mail applications, as we don't have 100% control of
> all hosts (LAB equipment etc.), so I guess it makes sense to still keep
> local-mailer, at-least just to keep consistency.
If it's for consistency, you would *not* have local mailers,
but you would configure everything to point at your HA postfix
relay. However I personally like local mailers as long as
something is automatically monitoring that they are well, and
you may find programs that will not work otherwise.
> Do you have a howto for this setup laying around somewhere
> (local-mailer -> HA postfix relay) ?:
Not really, but it's basically going through the "basic
configuration readme" and answering
For local mailers:
What domain name to use in outbound mail: $your_domain.com
What domains to receive mail for: none at all
What clients to relay mail from: localhost only
What destinations to relay mail to: default (nothing)
What delivery method: indirect: relayhost = [mailout.$your_domain.com]
For your HA relays:
What domain name to use in outbound mail: $your_domain.com
What domains to receive mail for: none at all
What clients to relay mail from: your local networks
What destinations to relay mail to: nothing (not applicable)
What delivery method: direct
Hope this helps.
