Duh, didn't even think of that one! Made that rule and it worked like a charm.
Thanks! On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote: > On 5/13/2011 11:49 AM, lance raymond wrote: > >> Just did a basic install of postfix on a U10.04LTS server. >> Reading over the manual and playing a bit, but the problem is >> this server will be one of 5 behind a load balancer (for other >> things). >> >> Mail will only be outbound, and currently when the mail is >> sent from the 1st box which is running the header shows; >> >> Received: frommail.domain.com <http://mail.domain.com> ([1.2.3.4]) >> >> >> Now the 1.2.3.4 IP is that of the loadbalancer (the outbound gateway for >> the server). The LB is on a /29 so I want to allocate a seperate virtual IP >> 1.2.3.5 for example which will have a virtual service set to pass that ip's >> traffic to that mail server. I tried to issue an smtp_bind_address = >> 1.2.3.5 and got the following error; >> warning: smtp_connect_addr: bind 1.2.3.5: Cannot assign requested address >> which I assume it's because that local box doesn't have that IP. >> > > > That header is added by the receiving server, not by your postfix, and > reflects the IP the receiving server sees. > > Sounds as if you need to set your LB to always use a specific address for > outbound connections from that particular host. > > This isn't a postfix config issue. > > > -- Noel Jones >
