Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-11-01 Thread /dev/rob0
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:17:10AM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > I am not sure what I want. The smtp_bind_address has been in the > config for ages, possibly added by someone else. I don't mind if > Postfix listens on all interfaces and I can't even imagine a > scenario where I would want to lim

Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-11-01 Thread Wietse Venema
D'Arcy Cain: > I am not sure what I want. The smtp_bind_address has been in the config > for ages, possibly added by someone else. I don't mind if Postfix > listens on all interfaces and I can't even imagine a scenario where I > would want to limit outgoing interfaces. These days smtp_bind_ad

Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-11-01 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 2016-10-31 03:39 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:20:29PM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: Is this expected behaviour? I set smtp_bind_address to our external interface to receive email It affects outbound *only* ... it has nothing to do with mail reception. Doh! I keep thinking

Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-10-31 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:39:59PM -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > >I set smtp_bind_address to our external interface to receive email > > For symmetry perhaps there should be a smtpd_bind_address, but there is not. > Instead there is inet_interfaces, which is (from the man page): There can't be, beca

Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-10-31 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/31/2016 2:20 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > Is this expected behaviour? I set smtp_bind_address to our external > interface to receive email but I want to be able to send email > internally. I do not need to receive on the the internal address. smtp_bind_address is for sending mail, not receivin

Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-10-31 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Oct 2016, at 15:20, D'Arcy Cain wrote: Is this expected behaviour? Yes. This is what smtp_bind_address *IS* From the postconf(5) man page: smtp_bind_address (default: empty) An optional numerical network address that the Postfix SMTP client should bind to when making an I

Re: smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-10-31 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:20:29PM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > Is this expected behaviour? I set smtp_bind_address to our > external interface to receive email It affects outbound *only* ... it has nothing to do with mail reception. smtp_* settings are for smtp(8), the Postfix smtp CLIENT. smt

smtp_bind_address affects outbound too?

2016-10-31 Thread D'Arcy Cain
Is this expected behaviour? I set smtp_bind_address to our external interface to receive email but I want to be able to send email internally. I do not need to receive on the the internal address. When I send mail to our internal network I just get a "Connection timed out" error. I can't se