On 9/12/2012 11:02 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > part of the problem described below is caused by/related to the fact that > I am now on a very slow/unreliable connection, and only webmail is > available, so please accept my apologies if I forget something. > > I have been running for years now my own email server on a VPS with a > fixed IP, nexaima.net > > My home Linux computer (fixed IP) ran postfix setup to relay all outgoing > email to that VPS > relayhost = 213.179.193.33:587 > > All worked fine. This week, within 24 hours: > > that computer motherboard died > I moved to a different ADSL provider > > This morning I copied all my desktop postfix config on a laptop running > Linux too, Now, if I send email from the laptop through its local postfix > instance, set as above: > > 1) email is rejected from recipient SMTP because I am sending from a > "blacklisted dynamic IP" > > 2) if I do tail -f /var/log/maillog both on the laptop AND on the VPS when > I send an email from the laptop, I see NO TRACE of that email actually > going from my laptop to/through my VPS. None of the logs shows evidence > that the two postfix, the one on the laptop and the one on the VPS, had > any contact > > It seems almost as if the laptop postfix ignored its relayhost setting or > (crazy, but being the other big thing that changed the idea came to my > mind) the new ADSL provider was intercepting/rerouting the SMTP traffic.
That sounds really frustrating. Unfortunately, you don't give us much information to go on. Please share your "postconf -n" and logs showing the unwanted behavior. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Noel Jones
