Re: [opensuse] smtp relay for send mail

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:12:37PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:21:37PM +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Jay Griffin wrote:

No idea why you've got this parameter set, but it will defer all smtp
deliveries, exactly as the name of the parameter indicates!

disable_dns_lookups = yes

This is another nice effort to shoot yourself. If you disable dns lookups
then don't expect Postfix to find out what ip address mail.btinternet.com
might be.

Remove both parameters and requeue the mails:

postconf -e "defer_transports = "
postconf -e "disable_dns_lookups = "
postfix reload
postsuper -r ALL
postfix flush

Then check if the mails are being delivered or if some other errors pop up.

relayhost = [mail.btinternet.com]

The square brackets disable the mx lookup in case some clever admin has
configured an mx for whatever reason.


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Thank you very much Sandy. I've made the changes and it does seem to be working much better now. I'll keep an eye on it though, any further problems will post back.

Thanks to all.

Jamie
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just to add Sandy, retrieving messages is also working; i'm polling them from an imap server currently. When i've got the static ip sorted i intend to set up mx for my domain. I thought about dyndns but from what i can tell it makes things easier having a static ip? is that right?

Jamie
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