From: Paul Hutchings (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 03:30:35 EDT
I sort of know what you mean, I think the documentation is all there, but I
found it often seems like you have to know the term of what you're looking
for help on - sort of chicken and egg.
FWIW you might want to give webmin a try, it has a very good postfix module
"out the box", and it also (IMHO) does a good job of breaking down the help
into clickable "per setting" nuggets which I found much easier to get my
head around when I was in your position.
regards,
Paul
-- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto: -----Original Message----- From: Lydiard [mailto:] Sent: 30 September 2003 21:35 To: Subject: Postfix Howto Needed and the gaps most of them leave out. Hi So here's the background in short form. I am fed up with my ISP I bought a server (running RH8.0) in order to setup a web/mail server. I decided on Postfix since it's supposed to be fast and secure. I went googling for howtos. I downloaded the source files. I installed it. That went OK. I edited the main.cf (according to the howto I was following) Postfix check told me /etc/localtime wasn't the same as something. Ditto wins.so and winbind.so Google brought me to the list and Ralf Hildebrands(sp?) answers. I've fixed that. The howto said I should telnet into the server (on port 25) and try to send a mail. 454 <root at localhost>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied was the result. Now, I aware that I have no real clue what I am doing, but I find the postfix howtos that I've read to assume a lot more than I do. Apart from needing a step by step guide, I'd settle for a working main.cf (that is secure, doesn't permit mail relay, has virtual domains and filters UCE) to work my way through. Reading all the sample-xxx.cf has just confused me. TIA Lydiard
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