maddae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I'm hoping for a little guidance with this. My apologies for not
doing a proper search on this first, but I'm a bit pressed for time.
I've been asked to build a mail server for the purpose of sending mail
from various machines within a LAN to anywhere on the Net. I'm
guessing that this would be considered a "relay" in a sense, since the
server will not be receiving mail from the outside, but please correct
me if I'm wrong.
My first question is, is this a do-able solution? I've only built 1
Postfix server previously, and it took me awhile and didn't quite work
as expected (due to my own lack of configuration, not with Postfix.)
I'm not going to use Exim or Qmail, as I believe this setup would be
very simplistic, and Postfix should be more than able to handle this,
along with any potential add-ons later on (automatically archiving all
outbound messages to another address, adding virus scanning, etc.)
Is there any documentation available on how to get this setup? Again,
my apologies for not researching this in more detail, but I need to
get an answer out as soon as possible, and I figured this list would
be my best bet.
TIA,
~MD
This is very do-able, and is very nearly the default
configuration. To accept mail from only your local network,
use something like:
# main.cf
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/16
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks
reject
with appropriate adjustments to the mynetworks setting.
Or just firewall port 25 from the internet.
Documentation to get you started:
http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
If you have more specific questions later, please see
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail
--
Noel Jones
