On 3/21/2013 7:09 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm in trouble with an old Qmail server that runs on > an also old server. > > The problem is I cannot modify the existing configuration > of this machine because of inhouse developped applications > that use qmail. > > Qmail ( which i know very few ) seem a bit autistic when talking > to non FQDN distants servers or with MX misconfigured. > > my idea is to add a postfix instance on this machine which will > send emails to the Internet. > > In my plan Qmail will inject all outgoing SMTP traffic into Postfix > instance that will send it outside .
That doesn't sound too hard. Configure postfix to listen on some localhost port -- I'll use 2525 for this example -- and configure qmail to use that as a smarthost. In postfix master.cf, find the line that resembles smtp inet n - n - - smtpd and change it to 127.0.0.1:2525 inet n - n - - smtpd Then configure qmail to use that port as a smarthost. I don't use qmail, but google suggests the way to do that is echo ":127.0.0.1:2525" > /var/qmail/control/smtproutes but you might want to check your qmail docs for details. -- Noel Jones
