On 3/10/2012 11:20 AM, Antony wrote: > Noel, > > Thank you. It confirms the theory that postfix is not aware of the > settings for smtpd_milters > ~$ sudo postconf -n
> relayhost = email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com Typically (but not always) the relayhost should be enclosed in brackets "[...]" to disable MX lookups. > > But I still don't know why it doesn't read the setting. I am going > to try to re-arrange the config order..maybe something overrides the > setting :/ > > Antony The order doesn't matter unless you've added a parameter twice (not the case this time since it would still show up). Probably a typo in main.cf, possibly unprintable characters in the parameter name. Make sure to use a plain-text only editor such as vi, or edit main.cf automatically with postconf using a command like postconf -e 'smtpd_milters=inet:inet:127.0.0.1:1234' man postconf for details. -- Noel Jones