On Wed, January 14, 2009 10:23 am, Chris Babcock wrote: > I'm using multiple instances of Postfix. One of the IP addresses I just > started using is blocked by a major provider. I've gone through all the > hoops... It's not on any RBLs, rDNS records match the hostname, etc., but > I have no indication that this provider has even received my > request about the block let alone plans to remove it. > > Meanwhile, I'm using "relayhost = [IP-of-other-Postfix-instance]" to > send mail through an IP address that isn't blocked, which kind of defeats > my purposes for having multiple Postfix instances. > > What I want to do is configure an alternate transport for this domain > like... > > /etc/postfix-asciiking/main.cf: > transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix-asciiking/transport > > /etc/postfix-asciiking/master.cf: > blocked unix - - n - - smtp -o > relayhost = [IP-of-other-Postfix-instance] > > /etc/postfix-asciiking/transport > earthlink.com blocked: > mindspring.com blocked:
Put the "IP-of-other-Postfix-instance" after "blocked:" See: http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html When no nexthop host name is specified, the destination domain name is used instead. For example, the following directs mail for u...@example.com via the slow transport to a mail exchanger for example.com. The slow transport could be configured to run at most one delivery process at a time: example.com slow: -Matt > > > When I tried this, I did postmap on the tranport file and postfix reload > for that configuration, but the logs clearly showed the asciiking Postfix > instance attempting to make direct delivery to Earthlink rather than > handing it to the other instance for delivery. I'm trying to follow > "Configuring an Alternate Transport" from p 403 of 'The Book of > Postfix'. Is my transport misconfigured? Is transport_maps the right > main.cf parameter? Something painfully obvious? > > Thanks, > Chris Babcock > > > -- Matt Rude website: http://www.mattrude.com - wiki: http://wiki.mattrude.com PGP Fingerprint: 0E94 70DA 89F8 5102 0862 5EA2 CB10 759E E65F 2C46
