Owen Townsend a écrit : > subject: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet > > Hope someone can help me with the postfix configuration file. > > I want to mail from Linux logged in user accounts to the internet > and more importantly from Korn shell scripts to the internet. > so scripts running by cron could email error situations to people at home. > I do not want to receive any email from the internet to linux logged on > users > via postfix. (postfix mail between users logged on to the RH linux works > OK) > I use Thunderbird for my email from internet. > > I installed postfix from my Red Hat release disc: > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt > rpm -ivh /mnt/Server/postfix-2.3.3-2.x86_64.rpm > > I have uploaded my main.cf & /var/log/maillog files from 2 tests > trying to email to o...@uvsoftware (my mail adrs at my ISP webfaction.com) > See 4 files in postfix/ subdir on my website: > > 1. www.uvsoftware.ca/postfix/main.cf <-- my postfix config file > 2. www.uvsoftware.ca/postfix/maillog1 <-- /var/log/maillog test1 > 3. www.uvsoftware.ca/postfix/maillog2 <-- /var/log/maillog test2 > 4. www.uvsoftware.ca/postfix/postfix_chk_ps <-- chklevels & ps for postfix > > The only thing I changed in /etc/postfix/main.cf was relayhost about > line 320 > relayhost=[74.55.86.74] <-- smtp.webfaction.com > > I am using a router to get to the internet & my ISP > - router gateway adress to the internet is 192.168.0.1 > - my linux Red Hat computer is 192.168.0.4 > > For each test I did following: > 1. service postfix stop > 2. > /var/log/maillog > 3. service postfix start > 4. mail o...@uvsoftware <-- my email adrs at my ISP webfaction.com > 5. service postfix stop > 6. capture 1st test log as maillog1 & 2nd as maillog2 > > In maillog1 I saw 'No route to host (port 25)' > and thought my router firewall might be blocking, > so I set my router to DMZ for my linux computer 192.168.0.4 > & ran test2 to create maillog2, but I still see 'No route to host (port > 25)' > - not sure what is causing this ?
may be a firewall is droping traffic? - try pinging the relay host - if that works, test with telnet: telnet smtp.yourisp.example 25 > Note - I saw 'sendmail' msgs on some of the maillog lines (mostly 'postfix) > - to prove sendmail is NOT running and 'postfix' is running, > I captured results from 'ps' & 'chkconfig' into the 'postfix_chk_ps' > (ps/grep for sendmail & postfix, chkconfig --list sendmail & postfix) > > Hope you can help me with the postfix configuration. > > Thanks, Owen >
