On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> > Asif Iqbal:
> >> I could skip the signing part and just a .pem file. But seems like I
> >> will also need a Thawte certificate.
> >
> > You need no certificate to SEND mail.
>
> I am trying to use gmail as my relayhost. I cannot just send mail to
> gmail without a relay host, my ISP does not handle it right, as shown
> in my original email
Why so much effort to make a SOHO linux box relay email to gmail? Why
does it need to be an MTA at all? You may guess that a frequent Postfix
contributor I would run Postfix on the machines at home, but I don't run
an MTA at all. I use an IMAP client to read mail, and the mail reader
(Thunderbird and Mail.app) submits SMTP to externally operated servers. No
at-home SMTP servers.
If you know what you are doing, and have advanced configuration
requirements that mandate a local MTA, by all means run Postfix at home.
In this case, I suspect that at least one of the above two conditions
is not met, and the OP is better off using professionally operatd MTAs.
--
Viktor.
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