Jay G. Scott:
>
> a while back i posted to the effect that i couldn't get postfix to deliver
> mail all by itself.
>
> it was pointed out that because i had two versions of postfix installed
> that i was doing a bad thing. you're right. i've fixed that.
> i have ONE version of postfix installed. i compiled 2.7.1 from source.
> the OS is redhat enterprise. the MTA is properly set up in
> /etc/alternatives.
>
> mail is getting delivered from my test machine (j6).
>
> the MX records from inside the firewall will list ns5 as the lowest
> cost MTA.
>
> the problem:
> i contend that (and i'm wrong, but don't know why) j6 should relay
> this mail directly to vme.arlut.utexas.edu. instead, ns5 is
> getting involved. what am i doing wrong?
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> here's the headers from a test email:
> >From r...@arlut.utexas.edu Fri Oct 22 16:22:47 2010
> Return-Path: <r...@arlut.utexas.edu>
> X-Original-To: g...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu
> Delivered-To: g...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu
> Received: from ns5.arlut.utexas.edu (nis1.arlut.utexas.edu [10.4.1.6])
> by fs1.arlut.utexas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D96417B5
> for <g...@vme.arlut.utexas.edu>; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:22:47 -0500 (CDT)
> Received: from j6.arlut.utexas.edu (j6.arlut.utexas.edu [10.3.16.13])
> by ns5.arlut.utexas.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9MLMlCq032303
> for <g...@arlut.utexas.edu>; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:22:47 -0500
> Received: from j6.arlut.utexas.edu (localhost.arlut.utexas.edu [127.0.0.1])
> by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 1427913A301
> for <g...@arlut.utexas.edu>; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:22:47 -0500 (CDT)
> Received: by j6.arlut.utexas.edu (Postfix, from userid 0)
> id E1C7A138E28; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:22:46 -0500 (CDT)
> To: g...@arlut.utexas.edu
> Subject: test 10
>
> (trimmed for bandwidth.)
>
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> main.cf, trimmed for bandwidth.
Please send COMPLETE output from the command "postconf -n"
and please indicate for which machine that information is.
Wietse
