On 11/14/2010 3:50 PM, flip side wrote:
I have two gmail accounts set up. When I'm logged in as
account1 I can send mail as "From" account2. Google calls this
an alternate account (http://goo.gl/Gts2g).
If I log in as account1 and send mail to my postfix server,
everything is fine.
If I log in as account1 and send mail to my postfix server
"from" account2, the mail never arrives.
I feel sure postfix must be filtering or rejecting the mail,
but I've been unable to find anything in any logs. I've set
'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 4' and added -v to the smtp line in
/etc/postfix/master.cf <http://master.cf/> but I'm not seeing
anything at all. In mails sent from the alternate account, the
from: address is acount1 and the sender: address is acount2.
That seems the likeliest cause to me. Any insights would be
much appreciated
You have failed to understand the difference between the From:
header and the envelope MAIL FROM.
Gmail alternate accounts can change the From: header displayed
by most mail clients. It does not change the envelope sender
as recorded in the postfix logs. So *all* mail arriving from
your accou...@gmail will appear in the postfix logs as
from=accou...@gmail regardless of whether or not you use the
alternate sender.
Postfix logs all connections, all deliveries, and all
rejections at the normal logging level. Increasing the
postfix log level only gives you 100x more stuff to search
through for something that was never there to start with.
If the mail never arrives, you'll need to look at something
other than postfix for the reason.
-- Noel Jones
