Postfix ignoring relayhost parameter
Hello We've been having huge problems delivering email to hotmail addresses (Hotmail is blocking all our emails since yesterday without any plausible reason). Microsoft's phone support is non-existant and they don't reply to any of our emails, even those sent from Hotmail addresses. Filled in their draconian sender information form form hotmail, no reply whatsoever. Anyway, since hundreds of mailboxes in our server are unable right to to send emails to Hotmail, we need to find some alternative. Relaying emails with an @hotmail.com destination through another email server that isn't blocked seems to be the more plausible alternative. So, i added the parameter to Postfix: relayhost = [our.email.server] Where our.email.server is our relay mails server address and reloaded Postfix, but Postfix keeps sending email using the local machine without trying to use the relay host. Am i missing something. Is there any other parameter (other than relayhost necessary for the server to relay emails to another server)? Many thanks Luis Oliveira Elaconta
Re: Postfix ignoring relayhost parameter
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:01:22PM +0100, webmas...@elaconta.com wrote: > Anyway, since hundreds of mailboxes in our server are unable right > to to send emails to Hotmail, we need to find some alternative. > Relaying emails with an @hotmail.com destination through another > email server that isn't blocked seems to be the more plausible > alternative. So, i added the parameter to Postfix: > > relayhost = [our.email.server] > > Where our.email.server is our relay mails server address and > reloaded Postfix, but Postfix keeps sending email using the local > machine without trying to use the relay host. Am i missing > something. Is there any other parameter (other than relayhost > necessary for the server to relay emails to another server)? Absent the logs I can only guess, but my best WAG here is that you should look at "-r" in "man postsuper". -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
Re: Postfix ignoring relayhost parameter
Em 2012-05-31 14:17, /dev/rob0 escreveu: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:01:22PM +0100, webmas...@elaconta.com wrote: Anyway, since hundreds of mailboxes in our server are unable right to to send emails to Hotmail, we need to find some alternative. Relaying emails with an @hotmail.com destination through another email server that isn't blocked seems to be the more plausible alternative. So, i added the parameter to Postfix: relayhost = [our.email.server] Where our.email.server is our relay mails server address and reloaded Postfix, but Postfix keeps sending email using the local machine without trying to use the relay host. Am i missing something. Is there any other parameter (other than relayhost necessary for the server to relay emails to another server)? Absent the logs I can only guess, but my best WAG here is that you should look at "-r" in "man postsuper". Ok it's working now, i had a transport in the transport maps that overrided the relayhost, duh... My bad, i am sorry, problem solved. Luis Oliveira Elaconta
Re: Postfix ignoring relayhost parameter
Em 2012-05-31 14:22, webmas...@elaconta.com escreveu: Em 2012-05-31 14:17, /dev/rob0 escreveu: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:01:22PM +0100, webmas...@elaconta.com wrote: Anyway, since hundreds of mailboxes in our server are unable right to to send emails to Hotmail, we need to find some alternative. Relaying emails with an @hotmail.com destination through another email server that isn't blocked seems to be the more plausible alternative. So, i added the parameter to Postfix: relayhost = [our.email.server] Where our.email.server is our relay mails server address and reloaded Postfix, but Postfix keeps sending email using the local machine without trying to use the relay host. Am i missing something. Is there any other parameter (other than relayhost necessary for the server to relay emails to another server)? Absent the logs I can only guess, but my best WAG here is that you should look at "-r" in "man postsuper". Ok it's working now, i had a transport in the transport maps that overrided the relayhost, duh... My bad, i am sorry, problem solved. Luis Oliveira Elaconta To piggyback a little on my own question, i now have set up a relayhost specifically for any emails sent to the hotmail.com domain, in the transport maps: hotmail.com smtp:[my.email.relay.server] It's working great. I previously had hotmail.com assigned to a slow transport to only send one email to hotmail every five minutes in order not to tax Microsoft's poor email servers: hotmail.com slow: Now i'm wondering, is there any way to combine both the transports? First, emails sent to @hotmail.com should be queued on the server (using the slow transport), only then sent to the relay host? Luis Oliveira Elaconta
Re: Postfix ignoring relayhost parameter
On 5/31/2012 8:43 AM, webmas...@elaconta.com wrote: > I previously had hotmail.com assigned to a slow transport to only > send one email to hotmail every five minutes in order not to tax > Microsoft's poor email servers: > > hotmail.com slow: > > Now i'm wondering, is there any way to combine both the transports? > First, emails sent to @hotmail.com should be queued on the server > (using the slow transport), only then sent to the relay host? hotmail.com slow:[my.relay] -- Noel Jones
Re: Postfix ignoring relayhost parameter
Noel Jones wrote: On 5/31/2012 8:43 AM, webmas...@elaconta.com wrote: I previously had hotmail.com assigned to a slow transport to only send one email to hotmail every five minutes in order not to tax Microsoft's poor email servers: hotmail.com slow: Now i'm wondering, is there any way to combine both the transports? First, emails sent to @hotmail.com should be queued on the server (using the slow transport), only then sent to the relay host? hotmail.com slow:[my.relay] -- Noel Jones Works perfectly, thanks :) Luis Oliveira Elaconta
