Take a look inside your main.cf file.
here are a couple of lines that you may need to take a look at:
mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/21
smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks
smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_mynetworks
Adjust the IP settings to fit your needs.
Don Calfa wrote:
>
> Now I have a fairly good concept of mail, processes, etc. This postfix
> thing eludes me. I don't want to use sendmail because of the bad aura
> that surrounds it.
>
> I've heard that postfix is supposed to "work" once it's started. The
> only thing it does is work from the localhost. The docs say that the
> default is to trust the subnet but that is false. From what I've seen
> on various BB's around, I'm not the only one but the answers given
> either didn't exist or were still cryptic. Postfix site and docs say to
> use !file|name and $mydomain but that doesn't tell me anything. They
> might as well say to use batteries and glass.
>
> I'm hoping someone can point me in a direction that gives me direction
> being that postfix has kept me in circles really hard this weekend. I
> haven't had a need for any type of *NIX mail since I've had my mail on
> M$ servers. I'm ready to kill that but right now, I'm not so sure. I
> thought I could grasp this rather quickly which is why I've waited for
> so long.
>
> I'd like to see some examples of cf files if possible. $mydomain
> doesn't mean anything to me. Am I supposed to take that it means that
> $mydoman resolves locally, $mydomain is really the variable $mydomain,
> or I substitute my site1.com in place of $mydomain?
>
> My DNS is perfect. This postfix thing is the only thing keeping me
> behind.
> Here is what I would like to accomplish. I have 2 servers, 1 home
> based, the other at an ISP serving websites. I'm runing RH8 and 9
>
> Home based server, have it become the SMTP server for all local clients.
> So far, only the localhost can do it. Seems rather simple but I've
> spent 1.5 days on that.
>
> For the other server:
> receive mail for multiple domains
> deposit mail for users in the proper accounts
> ( joe@site1.com is different from joe@site2.com)
>
> Thanks if anybody can help.
>
>
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