Re: Setting up to send mail

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 07:06:45 EDT

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    Charles Marcus:
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    > Wietse Venema wrote:
    > > Wade Smart:
    > >> relayhost = [smtpout.secureserver.net]:3535
    >
    > > Why are you sending mail for yahoo etc. to smtpout.secureserver.net?
    >
    > (I've been trying to help him privately, both because of the help I
    > received from this list when I first started with postfix, and for my
    > own learning experience)
    >
    > He has a different setup...
    >
    > 1. His mail is hosted by Godaddy. Godaddy is authoritative for his
    > domain, wadesmart.com
    >
    > 2. His local postfix box is also what he uses as his workstation.
    >
    > 3. He uses fetchmail to retrieve mail from his hosted Godaddy mail
    > server to his local server/workstation, running postfix (and dovecot for
    > providing imap access).
    >
    > So, again, his local machine that is running postfix is *not* the
    > authoritative server for his domain - he is using fetchmail/postfix
    > (I've never used fetchmail either, so not sure what is required in
    > postfix config to make them work together either) to grab all of his
    > email from where it is hosted at Godaddy.
    >
    > This setup is not something I've ever even done/thought about, so I'm
    > not sure how to help him...
    >
    > He wants his local postfix, which is running on his workstation machine,
    > to be able to relay all outbound mail being sent locally through
    > Godaddys smtp server. smtp.secureserver.net is the host Godaddy gave him
    > for sending mail using their smtp server remotely, so I assumed that he
    > should set it up like mine is here, since we do the same thing and it is
    > working fine - as the relayhost.
    >
    > > That machine doesn't want such mail.
    >
    > It should - it is what he was given to use for sending mail remotely.
    >
    > >> Apr 30 17:18:56 wadesmart postfix/smtp[18874]: B0E5F14284D1:
    > >> to=<>,
    > >> orig_to=<>,
    > >> relay=smtpout.secureserver.net[64.202.165.58]:3535,
    >
    > > List mail.wadesmart.com in main.cf:mydestination.
    >
    > But wouldn't he only do that if this box was authoritative for that domain?
    >
    > I'm confused by this, since he is essentially only using this postfix as
    > a relay for outbound mail.

    Good luck helping him, am I not going to try to interfere
    with invisible off-list assistance.

            Wietse


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