Daniel L. Miller a écrit : > Ok - now that I've fixed my idiotic routing errors (don't have two NIC's > on the same network unless you know what you're doing - which I clearly > don't!), I can get back to Postfix. > > From my prior configuration questions in ages past, I have been trying > to make most of my changes in master.cf, so each listener will do > exactly what I want (or to be more correct - exactly what it's TOLD, > which is not necessarily what I wanted...) > > There are two processes I would like to configure, but I'm not sure > which lines would be applicable. Which line in the default master.cf > would apply to the BSD mail command on the local server? So when I'm > configuring my Postfix server, and from the command line I type "mail > someb...@hotmail.com", which listener(s) process this? >
the mail command calls the sendmail command. if the sendmail command is the one supplied with postfix, the service to configure is pickup. I personally never use the "mail" command. I prefer using the sendmail command directly. > The other process would be whatever performs the send operation. If I > understand it right, whether I use the command line "mail" command or an > SMTP client, it will connect to an smtpd listener. No. > Various Postfix > internals will munch on the information, and assuming it processed > correctly a Postfix process will then attempt to send it on the remote > destination (assuming I'm sending a mail intended for a remote > destination). Is that step perform by either the "smtp" or "relay" lines? > By default "relay" is an "smtp". if you check master.cf, you'll find: relay unix - - n - - smtp ... > What I'm actually trying to do is configure a relayhost. What I want is > to setup a Postfix listener for local SMTP connections, which will then > forward to a relayhost for spam processing (in this case, primarily > auto-whitelisting). That relayhost will then send the message back to > Postfix on another connection, and THAT listener will not have a > relayhost defined so it should attempt direct delivery to the remote > host. I know this is something relatively simple - I just seem to be > more obtuse than usual. > -- transports are global inside a postfix instance. so you can't have context dependent routing rules. you can however use content_filter in an smtpd or in pickup. but make sure you don't create a loop.
