On Sun, 17 May 2009, Sahil Tandon wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Carlos Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Carlos Williams wrote:
> > >> relayhost =
> > >
> > > The default value is empty, so no need to redefine it.
> > 
> > I was told to add this value and leave it blank so that Postfix will
> > not be used as an open relay. Are you saying that I can remove this
> > completely as Postfix automatically does this regardless if it's
> > inserted in main.cf? I find it confusing to know / understand what
> > configurations Postfix auto assumes and what is required to be
> > specified in my main.cf.
> 
> I think you are confusing $relayhost with $relay_domains; the former is null
> by default while the latter, for compatibility with older releases, is set to
> $mydestination.  Typically, you should also set $relay_domains to null.
> Search the mailing list for previous discussions on this topic.  To see what
> Postfix "auto assumes" see the output of 'postfonf -d'.

Grr.  s/postfonf/postconf/

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Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>

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